Egenera, Inc. announced that they have been awarded U.S. Patent No. 7,174,390 by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The patent is titled, "Address resolution protocol system and method in a virtual network."

According to the company, "Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) within conventional Ethernet networks associates server and application IP addresses with their Ethernet addresses. And in systems such as the Egenera BladeFrame system that emulate Ethernet semantics on a high-bandwidth, low-latency, point-to-point fabric, virtual circuits in the fabric direct traffic flow."

The company continued, "Typically, it is necessary to further convert Ethernet addresses into virtual circuit numbers whenever traffic is sent - adding an extra table look-up for each transmission. Egenera's invention obviates the extra step by combining the virtual circuit table with the ARP table, lowering latency and processing overhead."

Pete Manca, executive vice president of Engineering and CTO, Egenera said, "With a world-class engineering organization, Egenera continues to build a strong intellectual property portfolio that extends our lead and furthers our mission to power the next-generation virtual datacenter."

For more information about the company and its products, visit their Web site.

Posted by David Marshall on February 25, 2007 02:20 PM