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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 31, 2021
Applicant:
Fortinet, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventors:
Stephen John Bevan, Auckland, NZ;
Dmitry Perets, Bologna, IT;
Assignee:
Fortinet, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/0806 (2022.01); H04L 41/12 (2022.01); H04L 45/64 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/0806 (2013.01); H04L 41/12 (2013.01); H04L 45/64 (2013.01);
Abstract
An initial provisioning by a management plane of the SD-WAN is received from a centralized SD-WAN gateway with static path overlay between the network edge device on a local LAN and the centralized SD-WAN gateway. At runtime, intelligent decision are made about which overlay path to select and when for the new flow over a control plane of the SD-WAN, based on the topology of the remote network edge and the local SDWAN policy, and to build the selected overlay path.