Cisco Technology, Inc.

Raj Venkatesan

Ankur Bhargava

Ashish Sood

Balaji Sundararajan

Syed Arslan Ahmed

Mahalakshmi Rajaram

Yogesh Mittal

This disclosure describes techniques and mechanisms for enabling and enforcing user behavior aware policies within an enterprise network. The techniques include receiving flow data and learning network traffic patterns and user behavior patterns of user(s) of the network. The techniques map user(s) to behavior group(s) based on forecast(s) and historical data of network conditions and/or user behavior patterns. The techniques monitor the flow data and dynamically re-map user(s) to new behavior group(s) based on real-time user behavior and/or real-time network conditions. Mapping(s) and/or updated mapping(s) and user behavior aware policies may be sent to edge device(s) for enforcement. The edge device(s) may dynamically prioritize a link, de-prioritize a link, block traffic, drop traffic etc. for user(s). The techniques may extend application aware and user aware routing policies to account for dynamic user behavior and network conditions, provide improved application experience and network utilization.

Providing dynamic user-behavior-aware policies in software defined wide area networks

This disclosure describes techniques for improving routing policy awareness in a network. The method includes detecting, by a controller, an application initiated for use at an edge node of a network. Then, generating, by an analytics engine coupled to the controller, analytical data of traffic flow at the edge node of the network wherein the traffic flow is in accordance with a routing policy for routing traffic associated with the application. Further, routing of the traffic through a path from one or more paths configured at the edge node that is in accordance with at least a Service Level Agreement (SLA) for traffic flow. Also, in response to an SLA violation during routing of the traffic, causing an action, by the controller, of routing traffic flow through another path that is in accordance with at least the SLA for traffic flow based on analytical data received of the traffic flow.

Automatic creation of adaptive application aware routing policies on a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN)

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