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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 27, 2023
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Carlos Pignataro, Cary, NC (US);
Eric A. Voit, Bethesda, MD (US);
Nagendra Kumar Nainar, Morrisville, NC (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Devices and methods that incorporate sustainability data within a header of a data packet to allow for the generation of sustainable configurations for various network devices are disclosed. Power efficiency is obtained at a node-level by including metadata to existing network flows, in an in-band/in-situ configuration. This information may be used for optimum flow placement. Received data packets may be formatted with sustainability data within a metadata shim. The received data packets are processed, and a sustainable configuration is generated for the one or more network devices. The generated sustainable configuration is transmitted to the one or more network devices to enable efficient and effective management of network devices by incorporating sustainability data into the data packets.