US Patent Issued to Juniper Networks on July 29 for "Bandwidth advertisement for floor reflector (FR) traffic engineering (TE) links" (Indian, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,398, issued on July 29, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Bandwidth advertisement for floor reflector (FR) traffic engineering (TE) links" was invented by Vishnu Pavan Kumar Beeram (Hyderabad, India), Chandrasekar Ramachandran (Bangalore, India) and Sudharsana Venkataraman (Brampton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The problem of bandwidth insufficiency within an Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System (IS-IS) flood reflection (FR) cluster, and its associated problem(s) of increased signaling failures (and increased crank-bank signaling attempts, also referred to as "signaling churn") when traffic e...