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Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2024

Filed:

Sep. 30, 2019
Applicant:

Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventors:

Jacopo Pianigiani, Cupertino, CA (US);

Tong Jiang, Fremont, CA (US);

Sukhdev S. Kapur, Saratoga, CA (US);

Atul S Moghe, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/00 (2022.01); H04L 12/46 (2006.01); H04L 45/42 (2022.01); H04L 45/586 (2022.01); H04L 45/64 (2022.01); H04L 49/00 (2022.01); H04L 49/354 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/46 (2013.01); H04L 12/4641 (2013.01); H04L 45/42 (2013.01); H04L 45/586 (2013.01); H04L 45/64 (2013.01); H04L 49/354 (2013.01); H04L 49/70 (2013.01);
Abstract

A virtual port group abstraction can facilitate automated configuration of devices in a data center. For example, a data center administrator can define a virtual port group to include a set of logical and physical interfaces for devices allocated to a particular department or other group within a company. An administrator for the department can then utilize a user interface to perform actions with respect to the virtual port group. The actions can include configuration actions, modeling actions and/or deployment actions. An action received by a network management controller such as a Software-Defined Networking (SDN) controller can be converted into the appropriate actions for the relevant logical and physical interfaces that are configured to be part of the virtual port group.


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