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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 18, 2007
Filed:
Feb. 06, 2004
Shehzad T. Merchant, Mountain View, CA (US);
Manish M. Rathi, San Jose, CA (US);
Victor C. Lin, Fremont, CA (US);
Vipin K. Jain, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Jia-ru LI, San Jose, CA (US);
Amit K. Maitra, Cupertino, CA (US);
Matthew R. Peters, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Derek H. Pitcher, Los Altos, CA (US);
Balaji Srinivasan, Fremont, CA (US);
Shehzad T. Merchant, Mountain View, CA (US);
Manish M. Rathi, San Jose, CA (US);
Victor C. Lin, Fremont, CA (US);
Vipin K. Jain, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Jia-Ru Li, San Jose, CA (US);
Amit K. Maitra, Cupertino, CA (US);
Matthew R. Peters, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Derek H. Pitcher, Los Altos, CA (US);
Balaji Srinivasan, Fremont, CA (US);
Extreme Networks, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A network switch having a unified, adaptive management paradigm for wireless network devices is disclosed. The switch includes configurable ports for connecting devices. A software application running on the switch allows a network administrator to selectively configure each port to support either a wired device or wireless device. Configuration information and software images that are needed for operation of the wireless device are associated with the port. When a wireless device is first plugged into the switch port, it downloads its configuration directly from the switch port. By storing the configuration information and images at the switch and automatically downloading them to the wireless devices, the task of configuring the devices is greatly simplified for the network administrator. This is particularly advantageous in heterogeneous network environments that support both wired and wireless devices, and where wireless device are readily moved to different ports.