Some embodiments provide systems and methods to monitor network communications, comprising: a computing device comprising a control circuit and memory with instructions executed by the control circuit to implement: a tunneled monitoring service (TMS) operated local on the mobile computing device; and a tunnel protocol within the mobile computing device that is configured to establish a tunnel interface between software applications and the TMS, wherein the tunnel interface is configured to collect output data transactions, communicated by the software applications, and direct the output data transactions to the TMS; wherein the TMS is configured to initiate a monitoring of each output data transaction relative to predefined criteria to identify relevant parameter information, obtained from one or more of the output data transactions, that have a predefined relationship with one or more of the criteria, and cause results of the monitoring relative to the criteria to be recorded.

The present disclosure discloses a method, device and storage medium for creating a bi-directional segment routing (SR) tunnel, the method includes: carrying out capability negotiation for whether to support creation of a bi-directional SR tunnel by messaging during a process in which a first network element establishes a session with a second network element; and if support, sending, by the first network element, an SR tunnel create message carrying a bi-directional flag bit to the second network element so that the second network element is capable of determining, in accordance with the bi-directional flag bit, whether a bi-directional tunnel or a unidirectional tunnel is to be created.

Methods and systems for a transportation vehicle are provided. One method includes initializing a first browser at an electronic device to communicate with a remote virtual loader having access to data for an in-flight entertainment (IFE) system of an aircraft; authenticating the first browser by the remote virtual loader; providing IFE data for the IFE system to the first browser by the remote virtual loader with an instruction to grant access to the IFE data by a second browser of the electronic device, the second browser authenticated by the IFE system to send information to the IFE system; and transferring the IFE data from the electronic device to the IFE system by the second browser that obtains access to the IFE data from the first browser in response to the instruction from the remote virtual loader.

A SOAM virtualization system for a network having at least first and second maintenance entities coupled to each other comprises a network controller coupled to at least one of the first and second maintenance entities through a tunnel for virtualizing a SOAM network function on the at least one of the first and second maintenance entities to which the network controller is coupled. The network controller may be coupled to the first and second maintenance entities through first and second tunnels, respectively. The first maintenance entity may an originator device, and the second maintenance entity may be a destination device, with the network controller virtualizing the SOAM network function on both devices. The network controller may send a packet containing a tunnel header and a SOAM frame via the first tunnel to the originator device, which then sends the packet containing the SOAM frame to the destination device.

A cell site gateway comprises a first interface, a second interface, and a third interface. The first interface is configured to communicate with a cellular base station. The second interface is configured to communicate with a network gateway. The third interface is configured to receive, from a control server, control information for a forwarding layer and comprising a first label and a second label. The forwarding layer is configured to: remove the first label from first packets received from the network gateway via the second interface; attach the second label to second packets received from the cellular base station; and transmit the second packets to the network gateway via the second interface.

Route exchange in a plurality of network controller appliances on a per-tenant basis is disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, from a network management system and at a first network controller appliance, a designation of at least two tenants to be hosted on the first network controller appliance, the first network controller appliance being one of a plurality of network controller appliances in a SD-WAN; sending, from the first network controller appliance to other network controller appliances of the plurality of network controller appliances, a tenant list query message to obtain a corresponding tenant list of each of the other network controller appliances; and receiving a corresponding response from each of the other network controller appliances indicating the corresponding tenant list of each of the other network controller appliances, the corresponding response being used to update the tenant list on the first network controller appliance.

Some embodiments provide novel inline switches that distribute data messages from source compute nodes (SCNs) to different groups of destination service compute nodes (DSCNs). In some embodiments, the inline switches are deployed in the source compute nodes datapaths (e.g., egress datapath). The inline switches in some embodiments are service switches that (1) receive data messages from the SCNs, (2) identify service nodes in a service-node cluster for processing the data messages based on service policies that the switches implement, and (3) use tunnels to send the received data messages to their identified service nodes. Alternatively, or conjunctively, the inline service switches of some embodiments (1) identify service-nodes cluster for processing the data messages based on service policies that the switches implement, and (2) use tunnels to send the received data messages to the identified service-node clusters. The service-node clusters can perform the same service or can perform different services in some embodiments. This tunnel-based approach for distributing data messages to service nodes/clusters is advantageous for seamlessly implementing in a datacenter a cloud-based XaaS model (where XaaS stands for X as a service, and X stands for anything), in which any number of services are provided by service providers in the cloud.

Various techniques for dynamic path selection and data flow forwarding are disclosed. For example, various systems, processes, and computer program products for dynamic path selection and data flow forwarding are disclosed for providing dynamic path selection and data flow forwarding that can facilitate preserving/enforcing symmetry in data flows as disclosed with respect to various embodiments.

Methods and systems include managing bandwidth in Fibre Channel over Internet Protocol (FCIP) communication channels. A method includes monitoring traffic demand at an FCIP communication channel and, in response to an anticipated period of throughput demand on the FCIP communication channel, reallocating physical throughput bandwidth of the FCIP communication channel by configuring bandwidth of one or more tunnels of the FCIP communication channel.

A method and an apparatus for processing a low-latency service flow, where the method includes that a first forwarding device obtains a low latency identifier corresponding to a first service flow, and obtains a second data packet based on the first data packet and the low latency identifier after determining that a received first data packet belongs to the first service flow, where the second data packet includes the first data packet and the low latency identifier, the low latency identifier instructing a forwarding device that receives the first service flow to forward the first service flow in a low-latency forwarding mode, and the low-latency forwarding mode is a mode in which fast forwarding of the first service flow is implemented under dynamic control, and the first forwarding device sends the second data packet to a second forwarding device in the low-latency forwarding mode.