Patent ID: 11909815
Assignee: VMWARE LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method of implementing context-aware routing for a software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN), the method comprising:
at an SD-WAN edge forwarding element (FE) located at a branch network connected to the SD-WAN:
receiving, from an SD-WAN controller, geolocation route weights for each of a plurality of cloud datacenters across which a set of application resources is distributed, the application resources all reachable at a same virtual network address; and
for each cloud datacenter of the plurality of cloud datacenters, installing a route for the virtual network address between the branch network and the cloud datacenter, the routes having different total costs based at least in part on the geolocation metrics received from the SD-WAN controller, wherein the SD-WAN edge FE selects between the routes to establish connections to the set of application resources.