Federated Network Analytics Platform for Cross-Network Visibility
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current network traffic monitoring systems lack interoperability between nodes and clusters across different networks, leading to redundancies in control operations and limited visibility across networks, making it difficult to analyze and manage nodes and clusters effectively.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of a system and method that provides interoperability between nodes and clusters in separate networks through a federated network architecture, allowing direct communication and data exchange between networks, enabling the sharing of network traffic data and analytics, and aggregating data for cross-network visibility and management.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If sensors are deployed in separate networks to collect network traffic data, then data collection capability is improved, but interoperability between networks deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple separate network monitoring systems into a federated network architecture where sensor data from different networks is aggregated and shared through a common data lake and analytics platform, enabling cross-network visibility while maintaining individual network data collection capabilities
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal analytics platform that serves multiple networks simultaneously, allowing the same infrastructure to collect, store, and analyze data from various networks through standardized interfaces and protocols
2Ease of operation
If networks operate independently with separate sensor deployments, then network autonomy is improved, but visibility across networks deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the federated network into autonomous network clusters that maintain independent operation while connecting to a shared analytics infrastructure through standardized interfaces, preserving autonomy while enabling cross-network visibility
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces intermediate components including data lakes, analytics engines, and standardized APIs that mediate between autonomous networks, enabling information exchange without compromising network independence
3Ease of operation
If separate networks maintain independent control operations, then operational simplicity is improved, but redundancies increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges control operations across networks by enabling shared analytics and insights from the federated architecture to inform control decisions in individual networks, reducing redundant control actions while maintaining operational simplicity
Data Source
AI summary
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for providing interoperability between nodes in separate networks as part of a federated network. In some embodiments, a system can identify a first cluster of nodes in a first network and a second cluster of nodes in a second network. The system can provide interoperability between the first cluster of nodes and the second cluster of nodes. First analytics for the first cluster of nodes can be generated using first network traffic data gathered based on first network traffic flowing through the first cluster of nodes by a group of sensors implemented in the first network. The second cluster of nodes can access the first analytics for the first cluster of nodes as part of providing the interoperability between the first cluster of nodes in the first network and the second cluster of nodes in the second network.