Unified WAN LAN Management Device for Joint Network Optimization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems lack the ability to jointly monitor and optimize Wide Area Network (WAN) and Local Area Network (LAN) communications effectively, leading to separate management and maintenance challenges that can result in inefficiencies and faults within both networks.
Innovation Solution
A management device that collects and analyzes information from both WAN and LAN networks to identify operational conditions, initiate management events, and implement corrective actions or configuration changes to optimize network communications.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If separate management and maintenance of WAN and LAN networks is maintained, then existing control mechanisms are preserved, but network optimization efficiency deteriorates and faults cannot be jointly addressed
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges separate WAN and LAN management functions into a unified management system that can simultaneously monitor and optimize both networks. The system combines WAN interface cards, LAN interface cards, and processing units into an integrated architecture that enables joint optimization of wide area and local area networks, resolving the contradiction between maintaining separate control mechanisms and achieving improved network optimization efficiency.
2Reliability
If joint monitoring and optimization of WAN and LAN is implemented, then network performance improves, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The management device is designed with multi-functionality, capable of performing both WAN monitoring and LAN monitoring through integrated interface cards and processing units. This universal design enables the single device to execute diverse functions including packet capture, protocol analysis, and fault detection across both network types, improving reliability without proportionally increasing complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system employs a nested architecture where the management device contains multiple interface cards (WAN and LAN) and processing units organized in hierarchical layers. The WAN interface card and LAN interface card are nested within the management device structure, with processing units further nested to handle specific protocol analyses, enabling complex joint monitoring through an organized hierarchical structure.
3Adaptability or versatility
If separate control channels for WAN and LAN are maintained, then existing operational procedures are preserved, but ability to address cross-network issues deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines separate control channels for WAN and LAN into an integrated control mechanism. The management device unifiedly manages both networks through combined monitoring and control functions, enabling operators to address cross-network issues through a single system rather than switching between separate control channels, thereby improving adaptability while maintaining operational simplicity through integration.
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AI summary
Described are systems and methods for jointly optimizing Wide Area Network (WAN) and Local Area Network (LAN) network communications. In one embodiment, a management device communicatively interfaced with a WAN and a LAN includes a collection module to collect LAN information from the LAN and WAN information from the WAN; an analysis module to jointly analyze the collected WAN information and the collected LAN information to identify an operational condition; and an implementation nodule to initiate a management event responsive to the operational condition being identified. In one embodiment, the management event includes generating and transmitting a diagnostics report responsive to a fault being identified. The management device may further generate and execute instructions to remedy the diagnosed fault.