RE: Buy the dip!!6 Apr 2026 09:39
Skid35 – “You don't have to have a patent to be able to sell tech based on that IP”
That’s correct you don’t need a patent to sell anything. What the patent does is prevent others from stealing your market after you’ve done all the original investment in research and trials. The patent also prevents others from taking you to court for stealing their market share on the grounds of patent infringement. A patent is needed here because ENET ‘Longest Prefix Matching’ solves a technical solution which is the abandonment of TCAM.
RNS 19/11/2025 – “The Patent covers the implementation of a highly optimized method for routing using an LPM algorithm, designed to support hundreds of thousands of routes in few clock cycles, while eliminating the need for costly external components such as TCAM (Ternary Content Addressable Memory)”
I don’t want to get too technical, but TCAM plays a major role in network computing and in particular AI computing, but it is extremely power hungry. All the major networking companies are looking to improve TCAM power efficiency or abandon it altogether.