Cloud based customer premises equipment
AssigneeJuniper Networks, Inc.
InventorsJasson P. Poirer, Sudhir Krishnan, Colby Barth, John C. Scano, John Liddy, Sanjay Kalra, Mathias Kokot, Javier Aviles Blanco
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Abstract
Network (cloud) based customer premises equipment may receive, over a broadband access circuit, layer 2 traffic from an access device at a customer premises; provide dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) services for computing devices at the customer premises, the DHCP services providing Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to the computing devices at the customer premises; and provide network address translation (NAT) services for the computing devices at the customer premises.
Claims23
A method, implemented by a network device, comprising:
- receiving, by the network device and over a broadband access circuit, layer 2 traffic from an access device at a customer premises;
- providing, by the network device, dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) services for computing devices at the customer premises, the DHCP services providing Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to the computing devices at the customer premises;
- and
- providing, by the network device, network address translation (NAT) services for the computing devices at the customer premises.
A device comprising:
- ports to receive layer 2 traffic from subscribers, at least some of the traffic being received from an access device at a customer premises, where the customer premises is connected to the device via a broadband access circuit;
- and
- one or more processors to:
- provide dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) services for computing devices at the customer premises, the DHCP services providing Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to the computing devices at the customer premises, and
- provide network address translation (NAT) services for the computing devices at the customer premises.
A system comprising:
- a plurality of access devices, where each access device connects one or more computing devices, from a corresponding plurality of customer premises, to a network, using layer 2 traffic transmitted over a broadband access circuit;
- and
- a network device to receive the network connections from the plurality of access devices, the network device including:
- an access node to aggregate traffic from the plurality of access devices, and
- a plurality of virtual customer premises equipment (VCPE) components to provide services to the plurality of customer premises, where the services include at least one of:
- dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) services that provide Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to the one or more computing devices, or
- network address translation services for the one or more computing devices.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.