Plug-in network device
AssigneeExtreme Networks, Inc.
InventorsGeorge Gang Chen, Edward Chee, Gururaj Govindasamy
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Abstract
A plug-in network device is disclosed. The plug-in network device can be used in association with a network management system and an infrastructure network device. The plug-in network device includes two antenna arrays, one of which is up-facing and one of which is front-facing. The plug-in network device can achieve wireless communication with the infrastructure network device via the up-facing antenna array and provide network services to wireless stations through the front-facing antenna array. The network management system can manage both the infrastructure network device and the plug-in network device.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- receiving, by a first plug-in network device, a first mesh pairing request from a second plug-in network device;
- in response to receiving the first mesh pairing request, sending, through a front-facing antenna of the first plug-in network device, a first acknowledgment and a second mesh paring request to the second first plug-in network device;
- receiving, by the first plug-in network device, a second acknowledgement from the second plug-in network device;
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- in response to receiving the second acknowledgement, transmitting, through an up-facing antenna of the first plug-in network device, a report indicating pairing of the first and second plug-in network devices to a network management system configured to establish a wireless communication pairing link between the first plug-in network device and the second plug-in network device.
A system, comprising:
- a first plug-in network device;
- a second plug-in network device;
- and
- a network management system, wherein:
- the second plug-in network device is configured to send a first mesh pairing request to the first plug-in network device;
- upon receiving the first mesh pairing request, the first plug-in network device is configured to send, through a front-facing antenna, a first acknowledgment and a second mesh paring request to the second plug-in network device;
- upon receiving the second mesh pairing request, the second plug-in network device is configured to return a second acknowledgement to the first plug-in network device;
- upon receiving the second acknowledgement, the first plug-in network device is configured to transmit, through an up-facing antenna, a report indicating pairing of the first and second plug-in network devices to the network management system;
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- in response to receiving the report, the network management system is configured to establish a wireless communication pairing link between the first plug-in network device and the second plug-in network device.
A non-transitory computer-readable device having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by at least one computing device, cause the at least one computing device to perform operations comprising:
- receiving, by a first plug-in network device, a first mesh pairing request from a second plug-in network device;
- in response to receiving the first mesh pairing request, sending, through a front-facing antenna of the first plug-in network device, a first acknowledgment and a second mesh paring request to the second first plug-in network device;
- receiving, by the first plug-in network device, a second acknowledgement from the second plug-in network device;
- and
- in response to receiving the second acknowledgement, transmitting, through an up-facing antenna of the first plug-in network device, a report indicating pairing of the first and second plug-in network devices to a network management system configured to establish a wireless communication pairing link between the first plug-in network device and the second plug-in network device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.