US Patent Issued to ARISTA NETWORKS on Sept. 15 for "System and method of processing control plane data" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,214, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to ARISTA NETWORKS INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"System and method of processing control plane data" was invented by Francois Labonte (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Hugh W Holbrook (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus of a network element that processes control plane data in a network element is described. In an exemplary embodiment, the network element receives control plane data and determines a class of the control plane data. In addition, the network element marks the control plane data based on at least on an existence of an indication of whether the network ele...