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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 20, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 09, 2015
Alcatel-lucent Usa Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Jun Hu, San Jose, CA (US);
Sanjay Wadhwa, Cupertino, CA (US);
Nokia of America Corporation, Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure discloses mechanisms for extending a local area network of a customer premises of a customer outside of the customer premises and into a private data network. The extension of a local area network of a customer premises 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, 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. The network gateway device may be configured to receive, at the customer bridging domain of the customer via a first tunnel associated with the customer bridging domain, a packet including a destination address and determine, based on the destination address, whether to forward the packet via a second tunnel associated with the customer bridging domain or whether to forward the packet toward a public data network.