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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 05, 2023
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Amjad Inamdar, Bangalore, IN;
Laxmikantha Reddy Ponnuru, San Ramon, CA (US);
Syed Arslan Ahmed, Bangalore, IN;
Anoop V a, Bangalore, IN;
Jai Prakash Agrawal, Bilaspur, IN;
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and associated methods provide solutions for end-to-end privacy and per-hop routing and policy decision in multi-hop and Software-Defined Wide Area Networks (SD-WANs) by leveraging unique SDWAN edge identities of edge devices. The system enables end-to-end encryption between traffic source and destination sites using IPsec ESP tunnel mode, with System IPs as the outer IP addresses. The system further enables per-hop integrity protection using IPsec AH transport mode, with WAN IPs as the outer IP addresses. By having some information encrypted between a source device and a destination device and other information encapsulated between hops (e.g., between source device and an intermediate device), the system enables route and policy lookup based on destination site System-IP, along with integrity protection based on SLA-class in packet metadata for independent path selection at intermediate hops.