US Patent Issued to Arista Networks on March 31 for "Negotiation of UMR roles to allow support of UMR aware and non-aware nodes and associated forwarding behavior within a single EVPN domain" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,878, issued on March 31, was assigned to Arista Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Negotiation of UMR roles to allow support of UMR aware and non-aware nodes and associated forwarding behavior within a single EVPN domain" was invented by Alton Lo (Freemont, Calif.) and Alex Nichol (Henley-on-Thames, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A UMR auto-discovery mechanism which allows a gateway EVPN router to advertise a UMR route and to suppress redistribution of remote domain MAC-IP routes. In one embodiment, upon joining a local EVPN domain of a network, a network device (an EVPN router) advertises its UMR capability, which ...