Juniper Networks, Inc.

Sudhir Krishnan

Mathias Kokot

Sanjay Kalra

Colby Barth

John Liddy

John C Scano

Jason P Poirier

Javier Aviles Blanco

John Gibbons

Ivan Dean Bogdanovic

Network (cloud) based customer premises equipment may receive, over a broadband access circuit, layer 2 traffic from an access device at a customer premises; provide dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) services for computing devices at the customer premises, the DHCP services providing Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to the computing devices at the customer premises; and provide network address translation (NAT) services for the computing devices at the customer premises.

Cloud based customer premises equipment

In one example, a network device includes computer-readable storage media configured to store information defining a default dictionary associated with one or more default services provided by the network service, one or more interfaces configured to receive configuration data defining a customer dictionary associated with one or more additional services beyond the one or more default services and a to receive a request to access one of the additional services from a subscriber device, and a control unit configured to determine whether an authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) server grants access to the requested one of the additional services to the subscriber device, and to configure forwarding information of the network device to cause network traffic associated with the subscriber device to be forwarded to a service unit to perform the one of the additional services when the AAA server grants access to the subscriber device based on the determination.

Customer extendable AAA framework for network elements

A device may determine, based on layer 2 protocol information of incoming traffic, whether to forward the traffic as layer 2 traffic or terminate the traffic as layer 3 traffic. The device may receive the incoming traffic as packets of a virtual local area network (VLAN) and may analyze a protocol type included in layer 2 header information of the packets to classify, based on the protocol type, the packets as layer 2 output traffic or layer 3 output traffic. The device may transmit, as layer 2 traffic of the VLAN, those of the packets that are classified as layer 2 output traffic, and may terminate, to layer 3 traffic, those of the packets that are classified as layer 3 output traffic.

Mixed mode L2 cross connect and L3 termination at an edge network device

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Acton, MA, United States of America

Sudhir Krishnan