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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 10, 2024
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Steven Wood, Ottawa, CA;
Balaji Sundararajan, Fremont, CA (US);
Laxmikantha Reddy Ponnuru, San Ramon, CA (US);
Avinash Shah, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Pritam Baruah, Fremont, CA (US);
Venkatesh Nataraj, Union City, CA (US);
Ganesh Devendrachar, Milpitas, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Generally, Software-Defined Wide Area Networks (SD-WAN) generally do not support network segmentation. The concepts disclosed herein connects IPSec SD-WAN fabric to a Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF) router and make use of a Software Defined Cloud Interconnect (SDCI) Router to route traffic from IPSec SD-WAN to various cloud services from the SDCI Router in the fabric. The concepts disclosed herein also provides for tunnel multi-plexing that takes incoming and outgoing traffic and maps VPNs to any service VRF associated with the cloud based services.