Cisco Technology, Inc.

David Scott McCowan

Manoj Kumar Kushwaha

Shailendra Bhargava

Scott Taft Potter

Leo Pereira

Steven Howard Berl

Ulrica Tam

Dario Calia

John David Billings

The present disclosure is directed to techniques for bootstrapping and certificate management of Internet of Things (IoT) devices using a zero-touch deployment (ZTD) service. In one aspect, a method of managing Internet of Thing (IoT) devices includes receiving, at an IoT management component, a bootstrapping request from an IoT device, the request including location information of the IoT device; receiving, from a controller, credential information for the IoT device; generating a policy for bootstrapping the IoT device based at least on the location information and the credential information; and sending the policy to the IoT device for the IoT device to complete the bootstrapping.

IoT bootstrapping and certificate management using zero-touch deployment (ZTD) services

The present disclosure is directed to systems and techniques for providing zero-touch deployment (ZTD) and/or adaptive network traffic control policy management for deployed Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices. In one example, the systems and techniques can include obtaining a network traffic policy from a network traffic control service and obtaining one or more data usage policies from an IoT hub. Data usage measurements can be obtained for a plurality of IoT devices. One or more IoT device traffic policies can be automatically generated based at least in part on the network traffic policy, the one or more data usage policies, and the data usage measurements. The IoT device traffic policies can be used to provision or configure at least a portion of the plurality of IoT devices.

Zero-touch deployment (ZTD) with adaptive network control policies

A mechanism limits the flow of topology information to only those nodes of a computer network that require the information. The mechanism comprises a filter having a plurality of conditions that are evaluated by a node of the network prior to forwarding the topology information to another node. Specifically, the conditions are evaluated with respect to lists of nodes that are defined according to the configuration of the network. By applying the filtering conditions to the defined lists, each node may selectively propagate the topology information throughout the network, thereby substantially reducing the amount of information flowing over the network.

Technique for reducing the flow of topology information in a computer

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David Scott McCowan