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US 11,464,073 B2Granted
Automatic deployment of wireless or wired networks through clustering of gateways and tunneling of data traffic to the gateways
AssigneeHewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
InventorsRaghunandan Prabhakar, Piyush Agarwal, Senthil Kumar Veeraswamy Santhanam, Shravan Kumar Vuggrala
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Abstract
Systems and methods are provided for receiving an indication that controllers and network devices belong to a site of a network, detecting the controllers and the network devices at the site, clustering the controllers to be deployed in the network, mapping the network devices to the controllers, and tunneling traffic from client devices accessing the network through the network devices to one of the controllers.
Claims16
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- receiving an indication that controllers and network devices belong to a site of a network;
- detecting the controllers and the network devices at the site;
- clustering the controllers to be deployed in the network;
- automatically mapping, to the controllers and to the network devices, a SSID (Service Set Identifier) or a MAC (Media Access Control) address of the network;
- tunneling traffic from client devices accessing the network through the network devices to one of the controllers;
- receiving an indication that a network device is to be removed from the network;
- and
- in response to the reception of the indication:
- removing the network device from the network;
- removing one or more tunnels between the removed network device and the controllers;
- and
- reallocating traffic among one or more remaining network devices to be tunneled to the controllers.
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A computing system comprising:
- one or more processors;
- and
- a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, causes the one or more processors to:
- receive an indication that controllers and network devices belong to a site of a network;
- detect the controllers and the network devices at the site;
- cluster the controllers to be deployed in the network;
- automatically map, to the controllers and to the network devices, a SSID (Service Set Identifier) or a MAC (Media Access Control) address of the network;
- tunnel traffic from client devices accessing the network through the network devices to one of the controllers;
- receive an indication that a network device is to be removed from the network;
- and
- in response to the reception of the indication:
- remove the network device from the network;
- remove one or more tunnels between the removed network device and the controllers;
- and
- reallocate traffic among one or more remaining network devices to be tunneled to the controllers.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.