The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 03, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2020
Applicant:
Arista Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Naveen Kumar Devaraj, San Jose, CA (US);
Chandrashekhar Appanna, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
Arista Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/46 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 12/733 (2013.01); H04L 12/713 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/4641 (2013.01); H04L 12/4633 (2013.01); H04L 45/20 (2013.01); H04L 45/586 (2013.01); H04L 63/101 (2013.01);
Abstract
In general, embodiments of the invention relate to providing a scalable network configuration to enable hosts for different tenants to communicate with each other. More specifically, embodiments of the invention relate to using a combination of per-tenant virtual routing and forwarding (VRF) tables, encapsulation, and stateless access control lists (ACLs) to enable intra-tenant and inter-tenant communication and segmentation.