A system for an enhanced X2 interface in a mobile operator core network is disclosed, comprising: a Long Term Evolution (LTE) core network packet data network gateway (PGW); an evolved NodeB (eNodeB) connected to the LTE PGW; a Wi-Fi access point (AP) connected to the LTE PGW via a wireless local area network (WLAN) gateway; and a coordinating node positioned as a gateway between the LTE PGW and the eNodeB, and positioned as a gateway between the LTE PGW and the Wi-Fi AP, the coordinating node further comprising: a network address translation (NAT) module; and a protocol module for communicating to the eNodeB and the Wi-Fi AP to request inter-radio technology (inter-RAT) handovers of a user equipment (UE) from the eNodeB to the Wi-Fi AP and to forward packets intended for the UE from the eNodeB to the Wi-Fi AP.

A system for an enhanced X2 interface in a mobile operator core network is disclosed, comprising: a Long Term Evolution (LTE) core network packet data network gateway (PGW); an evolved NodeB (eNodeB) connected to the LTE PGW; a Wi-Fi access point (AP) connected to the LTE PGW via a wireless local area network (WLAN) gateway; and a coordinating node positioned as a gateway between the LTE PGW and the eNodeB, and positioned as a gateway between the LTE PGW and the Wi-Fi AP, the coordinating node further comprising: a network address translation (NAT) module; and a protocol module for communicating to the eNodeB and the Wi-Fi AP to request inter-radio technology (inter-RAT) handovers of a user equipment (UE) from the eNodeB to the Wi-Fi AP and to forward packets intended for the UE from the eNodeB to the Wi-Fi AP.

A method and system for enhanced time synchronization with lesser delay and jitter, from a gateway of a network or an external standard time source, over the internet, in a traditional network, including SDN, by NTP clients like newly added devices, spawned VMs and the like, by automatic deployment of the distributed NTP service through DHCP and DNS servers by spawning NTP demons (ntpd), according to the time synchronization requests received, thereby offloading the NTP functionality of the gateway and decreasing NTP traffic.

A network device may send, to a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server, a request for an Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) address to be assigned to a management port of the network device, wherein IPv6 is disabled at the network device, and may receive a message that includes information associated with a network management system (NMS) and IPv6 configuration information for enabling IPv6 processing on the management port. In response to receiving the IPv6 configuration information, the network device may enable IPv6 processing on the management port of the network device and may register with the NMS based at least in part on the information associated with the NMS. The network device may, in response to receiving one or more configuration commands sent from the NMS to the management port of the network device, configure the network device according to the one or more configuration commands.

A network device may send, to a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server, a request for an Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) address to be assigned to a management port of the network device, wherein IPv6 is disabled at the network device, and may receive a message that includes information associated with a network management system (NMS) and IPv6 configuration information for enabling IPv6 processing on the management port. In response to receiving the IPv6 configuration information, the network device may enable IPv6 processing on the management port of the network device and may register with the NMS based at least in part on the information associated with the NMS. The network device may, in response to receiving one or more configuration commands sent from the NMS to the management port of the network device, configure the network device according to the one or more configuration commands.

A bare metal server, or other computing device, may be represented as a JSON file (extending the concept to infrastructure as code) containing hardware, firmware and software versions with links to a kickstarter file depending on the needs of an application, SKU type or some other criteria. Rather than a management node in an L2 network which has a DHCP server to IP lease and facilitate OS installation, a workflow then generates a bootstrap kernel which initializes the bare metal server with an IP address, VLAN, and network gateway which is used to reach out to the network to download and install a kernel, upgrade firmware for various hardware components like BIOS, BMC, NIC, RAID, SSD, NVME, FPGA, etc. The bootstrap kernel may further configure RAID and JBOD, flash custom images on hardware components and may further instruct the server to incrementally download and install an operating system.

A device provisioning configuration request from a network device to be configured is received. The network device provides the request to a network location obtained via a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol request made automatically by the network device. A configuration agent script is provided in response to the device provisioning configuration request. One or more notifications associated with a provisioning progress are received from the network device via the configuration agent script. At least one of the one or more notifications is utilized in a provisioning workflow.

A device provisioning configuration request from a network device to be configured is received. The network device provides the request to a network location obtained via a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol request made automatically by the network device. A configuration agent script is provided in response to the device provisioning configuration request. One or more notifications associated with a provisioning progress are received from the network device via the configuration agent script. At least one of the one or more notifications is utilized in a provisioning workflow.

An edge switching device (10) of an edge switching system (1000) includes: a remaining lease time information obtainment unit (122) that obtains remaining lease time information for each of user terminals (4) from a DHCP server (30); a submission order determination unit (123) that determines a submission order for user configuration information in order from a shortest remaining lease time; a user configuration information submission unit (124) that submits, to a backup system edge router (2B), user configuration information of each of the user terminals (4), according to the determined submission order; and a reconnection inducement instruction unit (125) that sends, to the DHCP server, an instruction to send reconnection inducement information to the user terminals for which the user configuration information has been submitted.

An edge switching device (10) of an edge switching system (1000) includes: a remaining lease time information obtainment unit (122) that obtains remaining lease time information for each of user terminals (4) from a DHCP server (30); a submission order determination unit (123) that determines a submission order for user configuration information in order from a shortest remaining lease time; a user configuration information submission unit (124) that submits, to a backup system edge router (2B), user configuration information of each of the user terminals (4), according to the determined submission order; and a reconnection inducement instruction unit (125) that sends, to the DHCP server, an instruction to send reconnection inducement information to the user terminals for which the user configuration information has been submitted.