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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 26, 2016
Sanjay Wadhwa, Cupertino, CA (US);
Jun HU, San Jose, CA (US);
Sanjay Wadhwa, Cupertino, CA (US);
Jun Hu, San Jose, CA (US);
Nokia of America Corporation, Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure generally discloses an addressing mechanism adapted for extending a customer local area network of a customer premises of a customer outside of the customer premises and into a private data network with improved scalability and performance. The extension of a local area network of a customer premises of a customer outside of the customer premises and into a private data network may be provided using a customer bridge associated with the customer local area network of the customer, a customer bridging domain hosted on a network gateway device for the customer, and a switching element hosted in the private data network for the customer for one or more customer components hosted within the private data network for the customer. The addressing mechanism may include one or more of address announcement functions, address resolution functions, address translation functions, or the like, as well as various combinations thereof.