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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2018
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2014
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Charles Calvin Byers, Wheaton, IL (US);
Flavio Bonomi, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jiang Zhu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method comprises detecting, by an access network computing node, a network service provided by a service provider for one or more identified endpoint devices via a wide area network connection, the access network computing node within an access network providing connections for the one or more identified endpoint devices to access the network service via the wide area network connection; detecting an unavailability of the network service via the wide area network connection; and supplying, by the access network computing node, at least a substitute of the network service for the one or more identified endpoint devices in response to the detected unavailability of the network service via the wide area network connection.