US Patent Issued to ARISTA NETWORKS on Aug. 4 for "Per packet editing of replicated traffic for monitoring and analysis" (Canadian, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,177, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to ARISTA NETWORKS INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Per packet editing of replicated traffic for monitoring and analysis" was invented by Stefan Kheraj (Burnaby, Canada), Graeme Rennie (Dublin) and James C. Pang (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device replicates a received packet for delivery to one or more analytical tools according to a list of entries called a multicast group that is associated with the received packet. Each entry in the multicast group is associated with an egress port on the network device and with one or more packet editing actions. For each entry in the...