US Patent Issued to ARISTA NETWORKS on Nov. 4 for "Dynamic forward information base prefix optimization" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,900, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to ARISTA NETWORKS INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Dynamic forward information base prefix optimization" was invented by Lincoln Dale (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device includes a routing information base including a first plurality of entries, a forwarding information base including a second plurality of entries; a forwarding information base entry optimizer that programs the second plurality of entries of the forwarding information base using, at least in part, the first plurality of entries; and a network processor that forwards packets based on the second plurali...