Rapid channel failure detection and recovery in wireless communication networks is needed in order to meet, among other things, carrier class Ethernet channel standards. Thus, resilient wireless packet communications is provided using a physical layer link aggregation protocol with a hardware-assisted rapid channel failure detection algorithm and load balancing, preferably in combination. This functionality may be implemented in a Gigabit Ethernet data access card with an engine configured accordingly. In networks with various topologies, these features may be provided in combination with their existing protocols.

Rapid channel failure detection and recovery in wireless communication networks is needed in order to meet, among other things, carrier class Ethernet channel standards. Thus, resilient wireless packet communications is provided using a physical layer link aggregation protocol with a hardware-assisted rapid channel failure detection algorithm and load balancing, preferably in combination. This functionality may be implemented in a Gigabit Ethernet data access card with an engine configured accordingly. In networks with various topologies, these features may be provided in combination with their existing protocols.

Embodiments of a device and method are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method for network device troubleshooting involves at a cloud server, connecting to a neighboring network device of a faulty network device, where the neighboring network device and the faulty network device are located within a network deployed at a customer site, and where the neighboring network device communicates with the faulty network device according to a short-range wireless communications protocol, and at the cloud server, performing a network device troubleshooting operation on the faulty network device using the neighboring network device as a proxy.

Embodiments of a device and method are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method for network device troubleshooting involves at a cloud server, connecting to a neighboring network device of a faulty network device, where the neighboring network device and the faulty network device are located within a network deployed at a customer site, and where the neighboring network device communicates with the faulty network device according to a short-range wireless communications protocol, and at the cloud server, performing a network device troubleshooting operation on the faulty network device using the neighboring network device as a proxy.

A server system including a first server to execute first role, other server to execute at other role, spare server and management layer server. The management layer server is configured to allocate first group of users to access first server and other group of users to access other server, receive status information sent by first server and status information sent by other server, analyse status information to determine an operational status of first server and operational status of other server, update role of spare server to first role when operational status of first server indicates failed state and reallocate first group of users to the spare server, and update a role of another spare server to the other role when the operational status of the other server indicates a failed state and reallocate the other group of users to the other spare server.

A server system including a first server to execute first role, other server to execute at other role, spare server and management layer server. The management layer server is configured to allocate first group of users to access first server and other group of users to access other server, receive status information sent by first server and status information sent by other server, analyse status information to determine an operational status of first server and operational status of other server, update role of spare server to first role when operational status of first server indicates failed state and reallocate first group of users to the spare server, and update a role of another spare server to the other role when the operational status of the other server indicates a failed state and reallocate the other group of users to the other spare server.

A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which a remote probing for failover service is provided. The remote probing for failover service includes receiving, by a network device at a standby location associated with a geographic redundancy, failover traffic, which originates at a primary location of a network. The network device routes the failover traffic back to a corresponding network device at the primary location. The network device at the primary location may provide the failover traffic to a network performance analyzer device at the primary location.

A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which a remote probing for failover service is provided. The remote probing for failover service includes receiving, by a network device at a standby location associated with a geographic redundancy, failover traffic, which originates at a primary location of a network. The network device routes the failover traffic back to a corresponding network device at the primary location. The network device at the primary location may provide the failover traffic to a network performance analyzer device at the primary location.

This disclosure describes techniques that include determining the health of one or more routing engines included within a router. In one example, this disclosure describes a method that includes performing, by a first routing engine included within a router, routing operations, wherein the router includes a plurality of routing engines, including the first routing engine and a second routing engine; receiving, by a computing system, data including health indicators associated with the first routing engine; applying, by the computing system, a machine learning model to the data to determine, from the health indicators, a health status of the first routing engine, wherein the machine learning model has been trained to identify the health status from the health indicators; and determining, by the computing system and based on the health status of the first routing engine, whether to switch routing operations to the second routing engine from the first routing engine.

Methods and systems are described for enabling an operative coupling to a network. In use, first data is received at a first node in a first network. The first data is forwarded between the first node to a second node in a second network, using a network relay. Additionally it is determined that a specified decoupling condition is met, and subsequent to forwarding the first data and in response to determining that the decoupling condition is met, the second operative coupling is disabled while the first operative coupling remains enabled for receiving second data for forwarding.