US Patent Issued to ARISTA NETWORKS on March 31 for "Reduced outage time with improved download to hardware tables based on different entries" (Canadian, American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,885, issued on March 31, was assigned to ARISTA NETWORKS INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Reduced outage time with improved download to hardware tables based on different entries" was invented by Lakshmikantha Chowdary Pothula (Santa Clara, Calif.), Purushothaman Nandakumaran (Milpitas, Calif.), Swaroop George (Bangalore, India), Ravil Baizhiyenov (Burnaby, Canada), Jiacheng Guo (Burnaby, Canada) and Zhong Xu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Software tables in the control plane of a network device are downloaded into the data plane hardware after a reboot of the control plane. Valid entries are identified and downloaded ...