US Patent Issued to ARISTA NETWORKS on July 29 for "Overlay route optimization across data centers" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,401, issued on July 29, was assigned to ARISTA NETWORKS INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Overlay route optimization across data centers" was invented by Naveen Kumar Devaraj (Apex, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The distribution of reachability information between data centers includes receiving routes that are advertised among network devices within a given data center. The received routes are summarized to produce one or more summarized (aggregated) routes which are fewer in number than the received routes. Instead of advertising the received routes among the data centers, the summarized routes are advertised. Advertising the summ...