US Patent Issued to ARISTA NETWORKS on July 8 for "Network device having multiple forwarding domains" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,682, issued on July 8, was assigned to ARISTA NETWORKS INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Network device having multiple forwarding domains" was invented by Paul Martin Fallon (Mountain View, Calif.), Nelson Enrique Perez Jr. (Burlingame, Calif.) and Karthikeya Kumar Pandit (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device is configured with multiple forwarding domains where each forwarding domain has its own view of a front panel, referred to as a virtual front panel. The virtual front panel of a forwarding domain represents the serdes (transceivers) of that forwarding domain as virtual ports. Forwarding domains can be inte...