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

Claim 12:
13. A method comprising:
communicating, by an aggregation network device providing control plane functionality, with an orchestrator of a wide area network, wherein a set of satellite network devices provides switching functionality;
executing, by the port extension service, 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,
sending, by the aggregation network device 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;
receiving, by the aggregation network device from the orchestrator, configuration information for managing at least one sub-system within the logical switch; and
configuring, by the aggregation network device 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.