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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2026
Filed:
Feb. 13, 2024
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Sharmishtha Upadhyay, Fremont, CA (US);
Manish Jiwansingh Mehra, Los Altos, CA (US);
Abhishek Vijay Kulkarni, San Jose, CA (US);
Balaji Sundararajan, Fremont, CA (US);
Upendar Surabhi, Fremont, CA (US);
Bhairav Dutia, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Ankur Bhargava, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Basavaraju Halappa, San Jose, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
This disclosure describes techniques and mechanisms for optimizing configuration management in SD-WAN networks. The techniques may enable optimized configuration management, by maintaining a 'single copy of config' that gets pushed across an enterprise network to different device models, consisting of different interface types and other nuances of hardware variations. The techniques also enable delivery of a cloud scale device type agnostic orchestration of network services intent. The techniques may also enable a controller to have the ability to identify the configuration intent of the user and generate a configuration based on what a network device can accept. Further the techniques may enable a controller to identify the relevance of a configuration expressed in user intent with regard to a network device, such that a user can be notified where the user intent cannot be met, thereby reducing configuration mistakes.