US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Nov. 4 for "Virtualized network functions through address space aggregation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,936, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Virtualized network functions through address space aggregation" was invented by Syed Khalid Raza (Fremont, Calif.) and Murtuza Attarwala (Davis, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, an example method to provide a virtualized Carrier-grade Network Address Translation (CGN) at a first customer edge router may include establishing a tunnel between the first customer edge router and each aggregation router among one or more aggregation routers, performing a Network Address Translation (NAT) on a first data packet to create a NAT'ed first ...