US Patent Issued to Juniper Networks on March 11 for "Scalable multi-tenant underlay network supporting multi-tenant overlay network" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,147, issued on March 11, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Scalable multi-tenant underlay network supporting multi-tenant overlay network" was invented by William Stuart Mackie (Carmel, N.Y.) and Marcel Wiget (Zug, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for scalable virtualization of tenants and subtenants on a virtualized computing infrastructure. In one example, a first controller for the virtualized computing infrastructure configures underlay network segments in the virtualized computing infrastructure by configuring respective Virtual Extensible Local Area Network (VXLAN) s...