US Patent Issued to ARISTA NETWORKS on Nov. 4 for "Using generic routing encapsulation (GRE) for carrying monitored network traffic" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,881, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to ARISTA NETWORKS INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Using generic routing encapsulation (GRE) for carrying monitored network traffic" was invented by Vijayaraghavan Rangarajan (Fremont, Calif.) and James Pang (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for leveraging Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) to carry monitored network traffic (i.e., network packets that are received and matched to a monitoring policy by a network monitoring system/fabric) are provided. In one set of embodiments, these techniques involve encapsulating a monitored packet using GRE by inserting the monitored pac...