US Patent Issued to Arista Networks on Aug. 12 for "Sandbox environment for evaluating arbitrary route control function (RCF) program statements" (Canadian, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,740, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Arista Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Sandbox environment for evaluating arbitrary route control function (RCF) program statements" was invented by David Cronin (Dublin) and Matthieu Loriol (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sandbox execution environment is described. The sandbox environment simulates the execution environment of a live network device. The sandbox environment allows a user to write and test RCF (routing control function) functions without having to configure a device for testing purposes. The sandbox environment accepts global variables to initialize the...