ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,334, issued on July 1, was assigned to Arista Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Virtual network identifier translation" was invented by Alton Lo (Fremont, Calif.) and Ian McCloghrie (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first network device for a first virtual network identifier (VNI) domain may be coupled to a second network device for a second VNI domain via an interconnect network. When serving as the downstream network device for processing network traffic from the first VNI domain to the second VNI domain, the second network device may perform remote VNI to local VNI translation for the network traffic, thereb...