A wireless interface system includes a wireless network interface, with a virtual Ethernet interface, that is configured to transmit and receive signals over a wireless channel using a predetermined wireless technology protocol. A method for abstracting a wireless interface protocol to an Ethernet protocol includes detecting, with a wireless network interface, access by a wireless device using the wireless interface protocol. A virtual Ethernet interface is created having an associated Ethernet interface ID. The wireless device ID is associated with the Ethernet interface ID in a table in memory. A payload from the wireless device is transmitted over the wireless technology protocol. The payload is transmitted to the virtual Ethernet interface using the Ethernet protocol.

A highly parallel programmable packet editing engine with a scalable control infrastructure includes receiving an ingress packet having one or more headers; assigning, by one or more processors, the one or more headers of the ingress packet to a number of zones, wherein each zone is a grouping of adjacent headers that are closely related to one another by information content or processing type; performing, by the one or more processors, offset computations for the one or more headers in a zone concurrently with offset computations of headers assigned to other zones; performing, by the one or more processors, different header operations on the one or more headers concurrently with respective ones of a plurality of editing engines; combining, by the one or more processors, the edited one or more headers at the computed offsets to generate a modified egress packet; and providing, for transmission, the modified egress packet.

In an embodiment an interface unit includes a transmit pipeline configured to transmit egress data, and a receive pipeline configured to receive ingress data. At least one of the transmit pipeline and the receive pipeline being may be configured to provide shared resources to a plurality of ports. The shared resources may include at least one of a data path resource and a control logic resource.

Various embodiments are described that relate to a rapid deployment communications tile. As opposed to running various data and/or power wires, a construction crew can use set of tiles that have built in data and/or power transmission capabilities. These tiles can be keyed such that they interlock together to form a relatively uniform surface, such that the surface can also be used as a floor. Further, the tiles can have hardware components that enable the data and/or power transmission capabilities. These hardware components can be environmentally protected such that their performance is not subject to environmental factors.

Described herein are systems, methods, and software to enhance the implementation of communication rules in a computing network. In one example, a method of operating a communication settings system maintains communication rules for a plurality of networks, wherein the communication rules define forwarding actions for ingress and egress packets to and from applications in the plurality of computing networks. The service further identifies a configuration request from a computing network with applications executing in the computing network, identifies a subset of the communication rules based on the plurality of applications, and provides the subset of the communication rules to the computing network.

A method for creating a secure link between any two endpoints in a network comprises: assigning a unique identifier to each endpoint of a network; for each endpoint in the network, transmitting the unique identifiers associated with each of the remaining endpoints in the network to said endpoint; establishing a secure link between a source endpoint and a destination comprising: transmitting a data-session establishment packet from the source endpoint to the destination endpoint via a symmetric NAT device; wherein the data-session establishment packet comprises the unique identifier associated with the source endpoint; performing a matching operation at the destination endpoint to match the unique identifier associated with the source endpoint with a unique identifier known to the destination endpoint; and upon matching of unique identifiers then creating a forwarding table entry for the destination endpoint based on the source address and source port associated with the source endpoint.

Embodiments of the present invention relate to a centralized table aging module that efficiently and flexibly utilizes an embedded memory resource, and that enables and facilitates separate network controllers. The centralized table aging module performs aging of tables in parallel using the embedded memory resource. The table aging module performs an age marking process and an age refreshing process. The memory resource includes age mark memory and age mask memory. Age marking is applied to the age mark memory. The age mask memory provides per-entry control granularity regarding the aging of table entries.

A wireless interface system includes a wireless network interface, with a virtual Ethernet interface, that is configured to transmit and receive signals over a wireless channel using a predetermined wireless technology protocol. A method for abstracting a wireless interface protocol to an Ethernet protocol includes detecting, with a wireless network interface, access by a wireless device using the wireless interface protocol. A virtual Ethernet interface is created having an associated Ethernet interface ID. The wireless device ID is associated with the Ethernet interface ID in a table in memory. A payload from the wireless device is transmitted over the wireless technology protocol. The payload is transmitted to the virtual Ethernet interface using the Ethernet protocol.

A system and method for handling a digital electronic flow between a first and second entity in which a flow policy is determined that is to be applied to the flow and the flow is then directed along a path in accordance with the policy. An ID is supplied for each flow and a tag associated with each flow which indicates the policy to be applied to its associated flow. Flows are also associated with one another, with associated flows having associated policies. In particular the flow may be processed or forwarded. The path may include a graph structure and virtual applications.

A system and method for handling a digital electronic flow between a first and second entity in which a flow policy is determined that is to be applied to the flow and the flow is then directed along a path in accordance with the policy. An ID is supplied for each flow and a tag associated with each flow which indicates the policy to be applied to its associated flow. Flows are also associated with one another, with associated flows having associated policies. In particular the flow may be processed or forwarded. The path may include a graph structure and virtual applications.