Nile Global, Inc.

Gigamon Inc.

Avoy Nanda

Promode Nedungadi

Suresh Katukam

Venu Hemige

Hoang Viet Nguyen

Steve Alexander

Vijay Bollapragada

Avinash Kumar

Siddhesh Dindorkar

Embodiments of a device and method are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method for communications involves establishing a tunnel connection between a switch of a network and a gateway of the network and in response to a communications device connecting to a network port of the switch, conducting data traffic involving the communications device through the tunnel connection between the switch and the gateway.

Methods and systems for communications

Embodiments of a device and method are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method for automatic Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) configuration involves at a first router, receiving OSPF communications from a second router and at the first router, deriving OSPF configuration for the first router based on the received OSPF communications to match OSPF configuration of the second router.

Methods and systems for automatic open shortest path first (OSPF) configuration

Embodiments of a device and method are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method for network security involves determining whether a device connected to a network port of a switch of a network is a native device or a non-native device for the network and in response to determining whether the device is the native device or the non-native device for the network, performing native device authentication or non-native device authentication.

Methods and systems for network security

Embodiments of a device and method are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method for switch management involves connecting switches to form a switch ring, and within the switch ring, configuring each of the switches to participate equally in network communications.

Methods and systems for switch management

Embodiments of a device and method are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method for automatic network service configuration involves using a packet manager of a switch in a network, receiving a packet containing dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) request information from a network device in the network, and using the packet manager of the switch in the network, obtaining routing configuration and Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) configuration of the network device in response to the packet containing the DHCP request information.

Methods and systems for automatic network service configuration

Embodiments of a device and method are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method of automatic network service initiation involves obtaining, from a network service server at a first network device of a network service block (NSB), network address information using a network service client at a second network device of the NSB that is connected with the first network device, at the second network device of the NSB, obtaining network service configuration information based on the network address information, and, performing automatic network service initiation of the second network device of the NSB based on the network service configuration information.

Methods and systems of automatic network service initiation using a network service server

Ternary content-addressable memory (TCAM) of an ingress appliance in a visibility fabric may include rules for filtering traffic received by the ingress appliance. But the TCAM has limited space for rules and can become easily exhausted. By migrating rules to other visibility nodes in the visibility fabric, the techniques introduced here allow the TCAM to be virtually extended across multiple visibility nodes. More specifically, upon receiving a data packet at an ingress port, the ingress visibility node can tag the data packet with an identifier based on which ingress port received the data packet. The ingress visibility node can then determine, based on the identifier, whether the data packet should be filtered using a rule stored in the TCAM of the ingress visibility node or a rule stored in the TCAM of some visibility node in the visibility fabric.

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Dublin, CA, United States of America

Avoy Nanda