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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2026
Filed:
Jun. 21, 2022
Arista Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Nader Lahouti, San Jose, CA (US);
Ryan Andrew Morris, Ontario, CA;
Sakti Aishwarya Arunachalam, San Jose, CA (US);
Sudip Regmi, San Ramon, CA (US);
Arista Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and system for deterministic network bandwidth aware multicast flow provisioning. In addressing network bandwidth oversubscription, embodiments disclosed herein propose a solution through which an intelligent and deterministic methodology may be implemented for provisioning network multicast traffic flows in order to minimize, if not eliminate, network bandwidth oversubscription. To that end, embodiments disclosed herein employ a centralized network controller configured to obtain a range of aggregated network state pertinent to deterministic, network bandwidth aware multicast traffic flow programming. Said aggregated network state may be collected through a number of logical agents dispersed throughout a network, and may include network device connectivity, network path or link bandwidth capacity, and network multicast status information. The aggregated network state may be leveraged to identify available network path(s) across the network whereon network multicasts can be provisioned without oversubscribing the network bandwidth available on those network path(s).