Cisco Technology, Inc.

Bhairav Dutia

Balaji Sundararajan

Ankur Bhargava

Vivek Agarwal

Satish Mahadevan

Nithin Bangalore Raju

Ramakumara Kariyappa

Nikolai Pitaev

Aastha Verma

Srinivas Yalamanchanli

Ziad Sarieddine

Systems and methods provide for creating a network device hierarchy among a plurality of nodes. The network device hierarchy may include a plurality of geography-based groups defined by a corresponding number of geolocations. The operations further include associating each of the plurality of geography-based groups with a plurality of different configuration intents, associating each of the plurality of nodes with one of the plurality of geography-based groups, and deploying the plurality of nodes based on their respective one of the geolocations.

Geolocation-based automatic configuration of network devices

Symmetric networking techniques disclosed herein can be applied by gateway routers in cloud networks. The techniques can ensure that both outbound traffic received at a cloud from a branch device and return traffic directed from the cloud back to the branch device are processed by a same gateway router. The gateway router can use network address translation to insert IP addresses from an inside pool and an outside pool assigned to the router.

Symmetric networking for orphan workloads in cloud networks

This disclosure describes techniques and mechanisms for disclosure describes techniques and mechanisms for a central management plane to automatically create and assign system identifiers to network devices, thereby creating a global network hierarchy within a network. The techniques enable the use of a system identifier to be automatically generated and assigned, as well as configuration and network policies to be automatically generated based on the system identifier. Accordingly, the techniques enable automation of regional connectivity and policy application, a simplified manner of troubleshooting/debugging of any connectivity issues, and a simplified, aggregated view of statistic and analytics related to problems at site, sub-region, and region levels.

Network hierarchy constructs enabling instant global wide area network connectivity

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