US Patent Issued to ARISTA NETWORKS on March 11 for "Prefix compression routes in exact match using redirection and mirroring FECs in hardware" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,141, issued on March 11, was assigned to ARISTA NETWORKS INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Prefix compression routes in exact match using redirection and mirroring FECs in hardware" was invented by Ramakrishnan Iyer (Karnataka, India), Vishal Bandekar (Karnataka, India), Niranjan Nagaraju (Karnataka, India) and Sriram Sellappa (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Prefix compression routes provided via exact match using redirection and mirroring Forwarding Equivalence Class entries in hardware. In a network device, a first table is stored having a first entry, a second table is stored having a second entry, and a third tabl...