US Patent Issued to Arista Networks on Feb. 17 for "Dynamic weighted ECMP EVPN overlay with kubernetes containers" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,495, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Arista Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Dynamic weighted ECMP EVPN overlay with kubernetes containers" was invented by Alton Lo (Santa Clara, Calif.), Keon Vafai (Milpitas, Calif.), Urvish Panchal (Redmond, Wash.) and Jaimeen Parmar (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods and products for distributing traffic to top-of-rack switches (TORs) that dynamically determine their capability to handle traffic and advertise this capability to border leaf router(s). The advertised information may include the bandwidth between the TOR and the instances of the service to which i...