US Patent Issued to Arista Networks on Feb. 24 for "BUM traffic handling for EVPN E-tree via network convergence" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,988, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Arista Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"BUM traffic handling for EVPN E-tree via network convergence" was invented by Akhil Shashidhar (Cedar Park, Texas) and Aaron David Bamberger (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An EVPN device may convey broadcast, unknown unicast, or multicast (BUM) traffic to one or more peer EVPN devices. Leaf-sourced BUM traffic may be dropped. After the network configuration for (known) unicast traffic has resolved, unicast versions of the BUM traffic may be appropriately forwarded to provide EVPN E-Tree service."

The patent was filed on Feb. 29, 2024,...