US Patent Issued to ARISTA NETWORKS on June 2 for "Quick reroute in Clos networks" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,351, issued on June 2, was assigned to ARISTA NETWORKS INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Quick reroute in Clos networks" was invented by Francois Labonte (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for implementing quick reroute in a Clos network comprising a plurality of leaf network devices and a plurality of spine network devices are provided. In one set of embodiments, a first spine network device can configure an Equal-Cost Multi-Path (ECMP) group that comprises the plurality of leaf network devices except for a first leaf network device. The first spine network device can further detect a connectivity failure betwee...