Fortinet, Inc.

Mitel Mobility Inc.

Sashidhar V Annaluru

Sekhar Sumanth Gorajala Chandra

Edward Lopez

Venkateswara Adusumilli

Mukesh Garg

Che-Lin Ho

Shivashakara Desigowda

Tamanna Jindal

Systems and methods for scalable SDN devices having ports/network interfaces mapped to cardinal flow processing (CFP) units are provided. According to one embodiment, an incoming packet is received, at a software-defined networking (SDN) switch. An ingress port on which the incoming packet was received is determined. A cardinal direction to which the ingress port is mapped is determined. Based on the determined cardinal direction, the SDN switch identifies a cardinal flow processing (CFP) unit within the SDN switch with which the determined cardinal direction is associated. The SDN switch then causes the incoming packet to be processed by the identified CFP unit.

Cardinality based packet processing in software-defined networking (SDN) switches

Systems and methods for obtaining and managing network appliance position information are provided. According to one embodiment, a network appliance controller establishes a network connection with a mobile device. The network appliance controller receives via the network connection from the mobile device identification information associated with a network appliance and position information. The network appliance controller associates the identification information with the position information as a deployment position of the network appliance within the wireless local area network (WLAN).

Associating position information collected by a mobile device with a managed network appliance

A request for an IP address for a client device having a first identifier information is received from an AP device. The request for the IP address is associated with a first communication protocol. The first identifier information is compared to a second identifier information. The second identifier information is associated with a second communication protocol. The second communication protocol is different from the first communication protocol. The IP address for the client device based on comparing.

Methods and apparatuses to provide secure communication between an untrusted wireless access network and a trusted controlled network

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Sashidhar V Annaluru