US Patent Issued to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development on Oct. 28 for "Method and system for facilitating wide LAG and ECMP control" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,840, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Method and system for facilitating wide LAG and ECMP control" was invented by Jonathan P. Beecroft (Bristol, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for controlling wide LAG and ECMP in a network. At the ingress edge of the network, a switch can identify packets as LAG or ECMP packets, and allow them to be forwarded through the switch fabric using multiple output ports or paths."

The patent was filed on March 23, 2020, under Application No. 17/594,811.

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