US Patent Issued to Arista Networks on March 31 for "Sharing egress tunnel header rewrite table entries across virtual private network (VPN) tunnels" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,884, issued on March 31, was assigned to Arista Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Sharing egress tunnel header rewrite table entries across virtual private network (VPN) tunnels" was invented by Vishal Bandekar (Bangalore, India), Binoshmon Tb (Bangalore, India) and Basil Saji (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of forwarding a data packet includes, in part, receiving the data packet at an ingress interface, reordering entries of the data packet such that a first forwarding equivalence class (FEC), indexed by a first forwarding lookup table, is caused to point to a virtual private network (VPN) identifier a...