US Patent Issued to Arista Networks on Aug. 25 for "Output state synchronization for border gateway protocol (BGP) processes" (Greek, Canadian, Cypriot, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,785, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Arista Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Output state synchronization for border gateway protocol (BGP) processes" was invented by Joanne Mikkelson (Milpitas, Calif.), Jesper Skriver (Nicosia, Cyprus), Isidoros Kouvelas (Athens, Greece) and Sharad Birmiwal (Burnaby, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A networking system may facilitate Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) switchover between an active BGP process and a standby BGP process. A method is provided that includes using the active BGP process to establish a communication session with a peer, to add the peer to an outbound update group l...