US Patent Issued to VMware on July 8 for "Forwarding packets in multi-regional large scale deployments with distributed gateways" (Indian, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,655, issued on July 8, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Forwarding packets in multi-regional large scale deployments with distributed gateways" was invented by Arun Kumar Srinivasan (Waterloo, Canada), Navaneeth Krishnan Ramaswamy (Chennai, India), Sumit Mundhra (Burnaby, Canada), Saravanan Kandasamy (Coimbatore, India) and Balaji Shanmugam (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for forwarding packets through an SD-WAN. The method is performed at a route reflector that advertises routes to facilitate forwarding of packets between first and second regions of t...