US Patent Issued to Juniper Networks on July 22 for "Facilitating elasticity of a network device" (Swiss, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,672, issued on July 22, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Facilitating elasticity of a network device" was invented by Marius Horia Marius Miclea (Epalinges, Switzerland) and Sandip Kumar Ghosh (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device sends, via a first port of the network device and to a server device, first traffic, wherein the server device provides a NFV service line card of the network device, and wherein the first traffic is at least one of first management plane traffic associated with the NFV service line card, first control plane traffic associated with the NFV service line ...