US Patent Issued to Fortinet on July 29 for "Remote cost based network traffic steering for heterogeneous links in a SDWAN (software defined wide area network)" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,997, issued on July 29, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Remote cost based network traffic steering for heterogeneous links in a SDWAN (software defined wide area network)" was invented by Shengyang Wei (Burnaby, Canada) and Shangwei Duan (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "During authentication of an SDWAN tunnel, Intent ISAKMP packets authenticate the local SDWAN controller and the remote SDWAN controller with each other, wherein the ISAKMP packets include a notify payload. Configured link costs associated with at least two member paths at the remote SDWAN controller that have heterogeneous physical...