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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 25, 2023
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Paul David Mattes, Saint Paul, MN (US);
Umesh Krishnaswamy, San Jose, CA (US);
John Michael Abeln, Bellingham, WA (US);
Sonal Kothari, San Jose, CA (US);
Paul-Andre C. Bissonnette, Seattle, WA (US);
Pappula Prabhakar Reddy, Johns Creek, GA (US);
Himanshu Raj, Cupertino, CA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A method and a network for routing data packet in a unified wide area network (WAN) is provided. The method includes encapsulating a data packet by an ingress aggregation router and forwarding the encapsulated data packet to an ingress backbone router. The encapsulated data packet includes a first label. The ingress backbone router selects an optimized traffic engineered tunnel and replaces the first label with the optimized traffic engineered tunnel and forwards the encapsulated data packet along the optimized traffic engineered tunnel.