Talari Networks, Inc.

International Business Machines Corporation

Cisco Technology, Inc.

John Earnest Averi

John Edward Dickey

Stephen Craig Connors, Jr

Andrew Joshua Gottlieb

Alan U Lopez

Neeta Ahuja

Miner H Gleason, Iii

Brandon L New

Wayne Nicholas Taylor

A computer-implemented method is provided for a security platform to implement network service policies based on custom attributes assigned to endpoints. An attribute agent on the security platform monitors at least one custom attribute and corresponding attribute value associated with endpoints. The security platform generates a host map associating a network address of each endpoint with one or more of the custom attributes and corresponding attribute values. The security platform determines network access policies based on at least one custom attribute and corresponding attribute value. The security platform generates an access control list based on the network access policies and the host map, and implements the access control list to control network traffic between the endpoints.

Network security policies using custom attributes

Systems and techniques are described which improve performance, reliability, and predictability of networks without having costly hardware upgrades or replacement of existing network equipment. An adaptive communication controller provides WAN performance and utilization measurements to another network node over multiple parallel communication paths across disparate asymmetric networks which vary in behavior frequently over time. An egress processor module receives communication path quality reports and tagged path packet data and generates accurate arrival times, send times, sequence numbers and unutilized byte counts for the tagged packets. A control module generates path quality reports describing performance of the multiple parallel communication paths based on the received information and generates heartbeat packets for transmission on the multiple parallel communication paths if no other tagged data has been received in a predetermined period of time to ensure performance is continually monitored. An ingress processor module transmits the generated path quality reports and heartbeat packets.

Flow-based adaptive private network with multiple WAN-paths

A method for controlling communications between link stations locally attached to a router and served by the same single thread Logical Link Control (LLC) stack. LLC generates a table for identifying all of the locally attached link stations served by the LLC and upon request from a locally attached source link station to establish a session with another destination link station, the LLC examines the table to determine if the destination link station is locally attached and served by it. If the destination link station is locally attached and served by the same LLC, the LLC deletes all standard LLC protocols normally used to inform a partner LLC concerning the state of the communication.

Method for using logical link control (LLC) to route traffic within a

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