Invention Publication
- Patent Title: SHARING TRANSPORT INTERFACES BETWEEN TENANTS ON MULTI-TENANT EDGE DEVICES
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Application No.: US18608677Application Date: 2024-03-18
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Publication No.: US20240223397A1Publication Date: 2024-07-04
- Inventor: Balaji Sundararajan , Ajeet Pal Singh Gill , 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
- The original application number of the division: US17979255 2022.11.02
- Main IPC: H04L12/28
- IPC: H04L12/28 ; H04L67/10

Abstract:
Techniques for virtualizing tenant transport interfaces configured to implement pertenant 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.
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