US Patent Issued to Juniper Networks on July 22 for "Service-based transport classes for mapping services to tunnels" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,612, issued on July 22, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Service-based transport classes for mapping services to tunnels" was invented by Kaliraj Vairavakkalai (Fremont, Calif.), Natrajan Venkataraman (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Balaji Rajagopalan (Bangalore, India) and Vasudevan Navaneetha Krishnan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for disseminating network service-specific mapping information across administrative domains. In one example, a network device receives an indication of a route target and one or more underlay tunnels configured to support a service route. The se...