Cisco Technology, Inc.

Vinayak Kumar

Rodney Fong

Jaya Sreedharan

The present disclosure describes a network appliance and associated access policy protocol (APP) that communicates and obeys access policies within a network. The network appliance (APP node) propagates access policies to other APP nodes that can utilize the policies most effectively. When an access policy reaches the network boundary, intra network bandwidth is optimized. The access policies may be distributed and executed in the cloud&#x2014;e.g. proxy firewall, proxy policy execution.

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Santa Clara, CA, United States of America

Vinayak Kumar