Patent ID: 11956140
Assignee: ARISTA NETWORKS, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 15:
16. A network device among a plurality of network devices connected on a wide area network (WAN), the network device comprising:
a storage storing a service-aware virtual topology (SAVT) routing table; and
a processor connected to the storage, wherein the processor is configured to:
receive, from another network device among the network devices, network traffic;
make a first determination, after receiving the network traffic and using the network traffic, that the network device is specified as a destination network device for the received network traffic;
make a second determination that the received network traffic has been serviced by a network service among a plurality of network services on the WAN; and
process, after the first determination and the second determination, the network traffic to store information about the received network traffic in the storage,
wherein the information about the received network traffic is used along with the SAVT to configure reverse network traffic that is transmitted back to a source network device that first transmitted the received network traffic.