US Patent Issued to Juniper Networks on Oct. 21 for "Utilizing egress peer engineering to determine optimized traffic plans and to implement an optimized traffic plan" (Canadian, British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,102, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Utilizing egress peer engineering to determine optimized traffic plans and to implement an optimized traffic plan" was invented by Greg Sidebottom (Ottawa), Patricio Giecco (Upland, Calif.) and Julian Kazimierz Lucek (Ipswich, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device determines traffic and costs associated with a network that includes network devices interconnected by links, and determines traffic assignments for the network based on the traffic and the costs associated with the network. The device determines tunnel use for the network ba...