US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Sept. 9 for "Mapping of IPSec tunnels to SD-WAN segmentation" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,518, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Mapping of IPSec tunnels to SD-WAN segmentation" was invented by Steven Wood (Ottawa), Balaji Sundararajan (Fremont, Calif.), Laxmikantha Reddy Ponnuru (San Ramon, Calif.), Avinash Shah (Pleasanton, Calif.), Pritam Baruah (Fremont, Calif.), Venkatesh Nataraj (Union City, Calif.) and Ganesh Devendrachar (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generally, Software-Defined Wide Area Networks (SD-WAN) generally do not support network segmentation. The concepts disclosed herein connects IPSec SD-WAN fabric to a Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF) ...