Avaya Inc.

Udaya N Shankar

Shashi Hosakere Ankaiah

Seemant Choudhary

Vivek Lakshminarayana Atreya

Kumar Das Karunakaran

Embodiments herein include systems and methods for providing a mechanism to enable smooth, seamless, and reliable connectivity for wireless devices in a unified network. The system supports roaming of mobile units across mobility switches. A given mobile unit can retain its IP address in both intra-subnet and inter-subnet roaming scenarios. The given mobile unit also retains its membership to a mobility VLAN to which it had been assigned, even during roaming scenarios. Embodiments include a framework for wireless switches to advertise VLANs they support to peer wireless switches in the mobility domain, and to advertise their capability to act as VLAN servers for those VLANs. Embodiments support VLAN membership management capabilities that allow access points and peer wireless switches to request wireless switches to add VLANs to the tunnels they share.

Method for enabling mobility of client devices in large scale unified networks

A method, system and computer readable medium for fast failover of an access point are described. A system can cause a failover of a first wireless access point when a wireless control point determines that a first wireless switching plane has failed through a platform link failure mechanism. The system can also prevent a failover of the first wireless access point or a second wireless access point when a message is received from both the first wireless switching plane and a second wireless switching plane indicating that the other wireless switching plane has failed.

Fast failover of access points in a split-plane deployment

Techniques disclosed herein include systems and methods for providing a mechanism to enable smooth, seamless, and reliable connectivity for wireless devices in a unified network, such as networks that apply a given security policy to both wired and wireless devices. The system supports roaming of mobile units across mobility switches. A given mobile unit can retain its IP address in both intra-subnet and inter-subnet roaming scenarios. The given mobile unit also retains its membership to a mobility VLAN to which the mobile unit had been assigned, even during roaming scenarios. The system moves or propagates IP address to MAC address bindings from one network to another network within a mobility domain. As soon as a mobile user roams to another network, authentication information is readily available to enable immediate connection to the new network to begin sending and receiving data traffic. The mobile unit can be using either static IP addressing, or can dynamically acquire IP addresses through DHCP.

Method to allow seamless connectivity for wireless devices in DHCP snooping/dynamic ARP inspection/IP source guard enabled unified network

A method, apparatus and computer program product for providing policy inheritance between Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs) is presented. The systems disclosed herein are able to convey, from a designated (i.e., first) VLAN to a roaming (i.e., second) VLAN, mobility VLAN policies enabled at the designated VLAN that are not provided at the roaming VLAN. In operation, example embodiments of the present invention detect a roaming mobile unit in the roaming VLAN. VLAN policies for the mobile unit are then requested from a VLAN server mobility switch in the designated VLAN. VLAN policies are then received and applied in the roaming VLAN.

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Bengaluru, India

Udaya N Shankar