US Patent Issued to ARISTA NETWORKS on Sept. 8 for "Fallback to bridging in programmable network ASICs" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,775, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to ARISTA NETWORKS INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Fallback to bridging in programmable network ASICs" was invented by Vishnu Vardhan K (Bangalore, India), Basil Saji (Bangalore, India), Anirudh Singh (Bangalore, India) and Ram Prasad Gudiwada (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided that enable a programmable network application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) to switch over from L3 forwarding (i.e., routing) to L2 forwarding (i.e., bridging) an L3 network packet in certain scenarios, such as a scenario in which the packet fails to meet one or more criteria defined...