US Patent Issued to Juniper Networks on Sept. 30 for "Transport of VPN traffic with reduced header information" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,141, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Transport of VPN traffic with reduced header information" was invented by Zhaohui Zhang (Westford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a first PE network device may receive, from a first CE network device, traffic that includes at least an IP header. The first PE network device may determine whether the first PE network device is to remove the IP header, or the IP header and a UDP header included in the traffic, from the traffic. The first PE network device may send, to one or more second PE network devices, the traffic, wh...