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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 19, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 24, 2017
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Jerome Henry, Pittsboro, NC (US);
Mark Allen Webb, Troy, MI (US);
Indermeet Singh Gandhi, Bangalore, IN;
John Martin Graybeal, Califon, NJ (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for providing enhanced visibility in heterogeneous network. The method comprises receiving, at a networking device housing a cellular base station and a WLAN access point, cellular network traffic from an electronic device. The method further comprises receiving, at the networking device, WLAN traffic from the electronic device and encapsulating, at the networking device, the cellular network traffic and the WLAN traffic using a common protocol. The method further comprises transmitting the encapsulated cellular traffic and the encapsulated WLAN traffic to a controller.