US Patent Issued to Arista Networks on May 26 for "Increasing replication capability in a broadcast domain" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,017, issued on May 26, was assigned to Arista Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Increasing replication capability in a broadcast domain" was invented by Purushothaman Nandakumaran (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device can be configured to receive a packet to be replicated in accordance with a virtual local area network (VLAN) replication set having a number of members. The network device can further be configured to identify a first sub-broadcast or layer 2 (L2) domain for the packet and to identify a first sub-broadcast domain replication set corresponding to the first sub-broadcast domain. The first s...