Patent ID: 11923963
Assignee: JUNIPER NETWORKS, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  Y | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A system comprising:
a set of satellite network devices providing switching functionality; and
an aggregation network device providing control plane functionality, wherein the aggregation network device is configured to communicate with an orchestrator of a wide area network, WAN, and wherein the aggregation network device is configured to:
send, to the orchestrator, data indicating the satellite network devices as respective sub-systems within a logical switch comprising the aggregation network device and the set of satellite network devices;
receive, from the orchestrator, configuration information for managing at least one sub-system within the logical switch; and
configure, based on the configuration information and by a port extension service executing on the aggregation network device, a satellite network device of the set of satellite network devices corresponding to the at least one sub-system,
wherein the port extension service executes a link layer discovery protocol configured to detect each satellite network device of the set of satellite network devices coupled to the aggregation network device.