Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP

Santhana Krishnan Narayanan

Raghunandan Prabhakar

Systems and methods are provided for customized grouping of end user devices using a new group identifier tag (GIT) in addition to role-based access (e.g., administrator or guest) and device identifier access (e.g., IP or MAC address). Two components may be implemented at a network access device, including a data plane component and a control plane component. For example, the control plane component may authenticate an end user device, store the MAC and IP addresses for authenticated end user devices, and define access roles for the end user device in the datapath. The data plane component may perform packet processing (e.g., forwarding and policy enforcement) pursuant to previously-defined rules. Whenever a packet arrives at the Network Access Device, the packet is forwarded according to the rules specified by the 'role' and GIT present in the entry, allowing for improved processing and scalability of network traffic processing.

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Bengaluru, India

Santhana Krishnan Narayanan