Avaya Inc.

Carl Keene

Sunil Menon

Seung Bong Han

Wu Miao

Sanket Ravindra Tandulwadkar

Srikanth Keesara

Victor Firoiu

Deborah Ellen Fitzgerald

Xiaohui Zhang

Eric Haversat

Richard Lacerte

Keith Krajewski

Generating PKI credentials for authenticating a networking appliance attempting to attach to a network includes: receiving a certificate signing request (CSR) from the networking appliance, wherein the CSR comprises credential data associated with an identity of the networking appliance; generating an appliance certificate based on the credential data and a certificate authority (CA) certificate associated with the computer; and returning the appliance certificate to the networking appliance.

Public key infrastructure exchange using netconf for Openflow enabled switches

Authenticating a networking appliance attempting to attach to a network includes receiving a request from the networking appliance to attach to the network, wherein the request comprises credential data associated with the networking appliance and a certificate authority (CA) certificate associated with the computer; receiving at least one value associated with an identity of the networking appliance; and authenticating the identity of the networking appliance based on both a) the at least one value associated with the identity of the networking appliance; and b) the appliance certificate.

Certificate-based dual authentication for openflow enabled switches

Authenticating a networking appliance attempting to attach to a network includes receiving at least one value associated with an identity of the networking appliance; receiving a certificate signing request (CSR) from the networking appliance, wherein the CSR comprises credential data associated with the identity of the networking appliance; and generating an appliance certificate based on the credential data and a certificate authority (CA) certificate associated with the computer. The method also includes returning the appliance certificate to the networking appliance; receiving a request from the networking appliance to attach to the network; and authenticating the identity of the networking appliance based on both a) the at least one value associated with the identity of the networking appliance; and b) the appliance certificate.

Customer-centric workflow for initial on-boarding of an OpenFlow enabled switch

Methods, systems and computer readable media for zero touch attachment of devices, such as Internet of Things (IoT) devices, to an SPB network are described.

Zero touch attachment of devices to a SPB network

Multiplexed traffic in a system where the maximum rate of all inputs exceeds the maximum rate of the output is processed via a separate queue for each input, and at any given forwarding clock cycle the earliest enqueued packet is forwarded via the output. In the event of congestion, a proportionally equal number of packets are dropped from each queue, where proportional equality corresponds to the number of packets dropped per number of packets enqueued. One implementation associates a time-stamp with each enqueued packet to indicate the time of enqueing relative to other enqueued packets. At any given forwarding clock cycle, the packet with the earliest time-stamp is forwarded.

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