Nile Global, Inc.

Dell Products Inc.

Suresh Katukam

Promode Nedungadi

Vijay Bollapragada

Steve Alexander

Shiv Mehra

Sathish Damodaran

Gopal Raman

Arun Madupu

Ganesh Sundaram

Avoy Nanda

Venu Hemige

Tjandra Trisno

Sudharsan Rangarajan

Avinash Kumar

Saikrishna M Kotha

Dipen Vardhe

Sumanth Narayana Reddy

Ganesh Sathyanarayanan

Siddhesh Dindorkar

Lakshmi Narasimha Prasad Bhumarapu

Embodiments of a device and method are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method for network segmentation of a network deployed at a customer site involves establishing a tunnel between a network device of the network deployed at the customer site and a network port of a switch of the network deployed at the customer site, when a wired device is plugged into the network port of the switch, transmitting network traffic between the wired device and the network device through the tunnel, facilitating a security operation regarding the wired device, and based on a result of the security operation, performing a network segmentation operation regarding the wired device.

Methods and systems for network segmentation

Databases may include records that: associate service providers with location indicators and with service types. A proximity rule may be associated with one of the service types. A discovery request may include location metadata and a service identifier associated with the service type associated with the proximity rule. In response to receiving the discovery request, the proximity rule may be applied to the location metadata and the location indicators to identify a service provider that satisfies the proximity rule and that provides the service indicated by the service identifier. A discovery response that is responsive to the discovery request and that indicates the service provider may be sent in response to the discovery request.

Systems and methods for providing a filtered discovery service

Embodiments of a device and method are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method for communications involves at a cloud server, restricting network access of a user after a Pre-Shared Key (PSK) of the user is transmitted, and at the cloud server, redirecting the user to an identity provider for authentication after restricting network access of the user.

Methods and systems for pre-shared key (PSK) based authentication in communications

Embodiments of a device and method are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method for communications involves establishing a tunnel connection between a switch of a network and a gateway of the network and in response to a communications device connecting to a network port of the switch, conducting data traffic involving the communications device through the tunnel connection between the switch and the gateway.

Methods and systems for communications

Embodiments of a device and method are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method for automatic Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) configuration involves at a first router, receiving OSPF communications from a second router and at the first router, deriving OSPF configuration for the first router based on the received OSPF communications to match OSPF configuration of the second router.

Methods and systems for automatic open shortest path first (OSPF) configuration

Embodiments of a device and method are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method for network security involves determining whether a device connected to a network port of a switch of a network is a native device or a non-native device for the network and in response to determining whether the device is the native device or the non-native device for the network, performing native device authentication or non-native device authentication.

Methods and systems for network security

Embodiments of a device and method are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method of network device troubleshooting involves at a cloud server, assigning a troubleshooting task for troubleshooting a network device deployed at a customer site to an operator, at the cloud server, receiving data regarding an issue in the network device that is gathered by the operator at the customer site, and, at the cloud server, recommending a remedy action for the issue in the network device to the operator based on the data regarding the issue in the network device.

Methods and systems for troubleshooting network device

Embodiments of a device and method are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method of network device deployment involves receiving an installation job at a mobile application of an installer device, using the mobile application, scanning a code of a network device at a customer location to obtain network device information, and sending the network device information and location information of the network device at the customer location to a cloud server for location specific configuration of the network device.

Methods and systems for location based network service deployment

Embodiments of a device and method are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method for automatically building an internet protocol (IP) network involves at a first network element, obtaining a first IP address from a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server, at the first network element, receiving a DHCP request from a second network element on an unnumbered interface of the first network element, and at the first network element, forwarding the DHCP request from the second network element to the DHCP server using the first IP address as a relay IP address.

Methods and systems for automatically building an internet protocol (IP) network

Embodiments of a device and method are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method of communications involves from a wireless sensor deployed at a customer site, connecting to a wireless access point (AP) deployed at the customer site and based on a private key stored in the wireless sensor, performing mutual authentication between the wireless sensor and an authentication server connected to the wireless AP.

Methods and systems of wireless sensor authentication

Embodiments of a device and method are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method of network diagnostic of a network deployed at a customer site involves at a cloud server connected to the network deployed at the customer site, collecting connectivity state information of the network deployed at the customer site and at the cloud server, performing a network diagnostic operation based on the connectivity state information.

Methods and systems for network diagnostic

Embodiments of a device and method are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method for switch management involves connecting switches to form a switch ring, and within the switch ring, configuring each of the switches to participate equally in network communications.

Methods and systems for switch management

Embodiments of methods and a system to validate a change in a computer networking system are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method to validate a change in a computer networking system includes identifying, at a network management system, at least one candidate device, where a candidate device has a network connection to a device that is a target of the change in the computer networking system, collecting, at the network management system, metrics related to the at least one candidate device, triggering, by the network management system, the change at a target device, and validating, at the network management system, the change in the computer networking system using the metrics of the at least one candidate device.

Methods and system to validate a change in a computer networking system

Embodiments of a device and method are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method of network device name management involves at a cloud server, determining a device name of a network device to be deployed at a customer site based on site survey result information of the customer site, at the cloud server, receiving network device information of the network device after the network device is deployed at the customer site, and at the cloud server, associating the device name of the network device with the network device information of the network device.

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Milpitas, CA, United States of America

Suresh Katukam