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Manasi Deval

Sumit Sharad Dhoble

Deepak Bansal

Rishabh Tewari

Avijit Gupta

Pranjal Shrivastava

Jonathan Paul Rosenberg

Jun Tse Chen

Madhan Sivakumar

James Wesley Boerner

Hang Kwong Lee

Anish Sagar Narsian

Weixi Chen

Zexuan Zhao

Arun Jeedigunta Venkata Satya

Sahil Aggarwal

Sonia Sharma

Soumya Sucharita Mishra

Bhushan Vinayak Bhise

Elliot James Edmunds

Devan Harikumar

Sirshak Das

A computer implemented method includes receiving partially created software defined network (SDN) policy state information at a backup software defined network (SDN) appliance in response to the sending of a synchronize packet to establish a connection. The state information corresponds to a state of the connection between two endpoints that include a first active SDN appliance and a second active SDN appliance. A replica of the SDN policy state information is saved at the backup SDN appliance. An update to the SDN policy state information is received in response to the sending of an acknowledgement packet. The replica of the SDN policy state information updated at the backup SDN appliance to enable the backup SDN to transition to active.

Sharing SDN policy state information between SDN appliances

A virtual network comprising virtual machines executing at a computing environment is implemented. A flexibly extensible NIC (eNIC) is executed at a software defined networking (SDN) appliance. A data packet is received that is addressed to a host that is connected to the virtual network. Based on a layer 2 address and a network identifier, the virtual switch identifies the host represented by the eNIC that is associated with the data packet. A policy associated with the host is determined and applied to the data packet. The policy is dynamically adjustable based on the host.

Injecting network endpoints into a SDN

A virtual network comprising virtual machines executing at a computing environment is implemented. A software defined networking (SDN) appliance is configured to provide a connection to computing resources via a virtual network of a virtual computing environment. The SDN appliance is configured to apply policies of the virtual computing environment to data traffic on the virtual network. The SDN appliance is operable to interact with multiple network devices that are configured to act as a hardware acceleration device for processing data traffic. Virtual addresses are assigned to the network devices. The SDN appliance executes a virtual switch configured to identify data traffic sent to or received from a host and act as a proxy for the network devices and respond on their behalf.

Software defined networking operations for programmable connected devices

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