Cisco Technology, Inc.

Christopher Spain

Fabio Rodolfo Maino

Pauline Shuen

Vina Ermagan

Shashi Kumar

Mauricio Arregoces

Pritesh N Patel

Ujjal Bajaj

Albert H Mitchell, Jr

April Chou

Glen Robert Fisher

In one embodiment, a first device in a network receives application traffic sent from a source device towards a destination address. The first device sends the application traffic to a traffic identification service. The first device receives an instruction to establish a network tunnel to send the application traffic from the source device towards the destination address. The instruction is based on a classification of the application traffic by the traffic identification service. The first device establishes the network tunnel to send the application traffic from the source device towards the destination address.

Application identification and overlay provisioning as a service

A method and system for fast link failover is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method is provided in which a failure of a first link between a network element and an upstream portion of a communications network is detected, and a second link or group of links between the network element and a downstream portion of the communications network is responsively disabled to maintain a communications channel between the downstream and upstream portions of the communications network.

Method and system for fast link failover

A method and apparatus for automatically configuring a physical port of a switch with features appropriate to a connection type snoops incoming packets to determine the connection type and executes a port configuration macro installed on the switch to apply appropriate features for the connection type.

Automatically configuring switch ports with appropriate features

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Morgan Hill, CA, United States of America

Christopher Spain