Invention Publication
- Patent Title: SHARING TRANSPORT INTERFACES BETWEEN TENANTS ON MULTI-TENANT EDGE DEVICES
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Application No.: US17979255Application Date: 2022-11-02
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Publication No.: US20240146565A1Publication Date: 2024-05-02
- Inventor: Ajeet Pal Singh Gill , Balaji Sundararajan , Srilatha Tangirala , Nithin Bangalore Raju , Ravi Kiran Chintallapudi , Pradeepan Kannawadi , Ganesh Devendrachar
- Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Main IPC: H04L12/28
- IPC: H04L12/28 ; H04L67/10

Abstract:
Techniques for virtualizing tenant transport interfaces configured to implement per-tenant network routing attribute differentiation in each tenant overlay of a multisite wide area network (WAN) and share the virtual transport interfaces between multi-tenant edge (MTE) devices providing transport services to tenant devices based on a defined tenant tier model. A Software-Defined Networking (SDN) controller may receive a physical transport interface and/or a device type associated with a tenant device. The SDN controller may determine a virtual transport interface for the tenant device based on a tier associated with the tenant. MTE device(s) may utilize the physical transport interface to establish sessions with other MTE device(s) in the WAN. The virtual transport interface may be utilized by MTE devices to implement and/or enforce network routing attributes when forwarding network traffic associated with the tenant via the sessions established between the MTE devices through the WAN.
Public/Granted literature
- US11962429B1 Sharing transport interfaces between tenants on multi-tenant edge devices Public/Granted day:2024-04-16
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