MAPPING OF IPSEC TUNNELS TO SD-WAN SEGMENTATION

Organization Name

CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.

Inventor(s)

Steven Wood of Ottawa (CA)

Balaji Sundararajan of Fremont CA (US)

Laxmikantha Reddy Ponnuru of San Ramon CA (US)

Avinash Shah of Pleasanton CA (US)

Pritam Baruah of Fremont CA (US)

Venkatesh Nataraj of Union City CA (US)

Ganesh Devendrachar of Milpitas CA (US)

MAPPING OF IPSEC TUNNELS TO SD-WAN SEGMENTATION

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 20250071060 titled 'MAPPING OF IPSEC TUNNELS TO SD-WAN SEGMENTATION

Original Abstract Submitted

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.