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AP-local dynamic switching

US9838942B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Trapeze Networks, Inc. · US

Inventors

James V. Murphy · East Greenwich, US
Gary Eugene Morain · San Jose, US
Stan Chesnutt · Berkeley, US

Key dates

Filing date	Jan 14, 2016
Grant date	Dec 5, 2017
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jan 14, 2036

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04W88/14
WIPO fieldDigital communication
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A technique for implementing AP-local dynamic switching involves Layer 2 switching. This may be accomplished by providing data associated with wireless stations to an AP sufficient to enable the AP to determine whether traffic from a particular wireless station should be locally switched. Alternatively, the wireless station may be able to determine whether to locally switch traffic based upon the traffic itself. For example, it may be desirable to AP-locally switch voice traffic to avoid latency, which is particularly detrimental to voice transmissions such as voice-over-IP. Traffic that is not to be switched locally is Layer 2 tunneled upstream.

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