Patent ID: 11956136
Assignee: ARISTA NETWORKS, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 9:
10. A method of measuring a traffic flow rate comprising:
receiving, by a collector, a first telemetry report associated with a first data packet, wherein the first telemetry report includes a count, an ingress time stamp, and a hash value associated with the first data packet;
receiving, by the collector, a second telemetry report associated with a second data packet, wherein the second telemetry report includes a count, an ingress time stamp, and a hash value associated with the second data packet;
calculating a difference between the count from the first telemetry report and the second telemetry report to obtain a flow differential value;
calculating a difference between the ingress time stamp from the first telemetry report and the second telemetry report to obtain a time differential value; and
dividing the flow differential value by the time differential value to measure the traffic flow rate.