US Patent Issued to Arista Networks on Sept. 1 for "Originating routes in a multicast virtual private network (MVPN) based on traffic activity" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,377, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Arista Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Originating routes in a multicast virtual private network (MVPN) based on traffic activity" was invented by Sandeep Betha (Burnaby, Canada) and Prashant Srinivas (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for propagating information on sources for a multicast group across an MVPN from a co-located RP and PE in a site of the MVPN are disclosed. Embodiments may monitor traffic at a network device comprising the co-located RP and PE to determine when a source sends traffic for a multicast group. When it is determined that traff...