Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques for employing an adaptive mechanism in communications among network devices. Adaptive mechanism techniques may include adapting network operations relative to characteristics of devices and/or network access technologies or mechanisms used in the network. Adaptation may help to accommodate a wider variety of types of devices. For instance, adaptive mechanism techniques may include determining, based on characteristics of a device in the network, a forwarding mechanism to be used at an access device to forward data traffic from the device to another device via the network. As such, adaptive mechanism techniques may provide more efficient integration of devices within a complex network, thereby improving network operations.

Abstract: Techniques are described herein for service chaining in fabric networks such that hardware resources can be preserved without service nodes needing additional capabilities. The techniques may include storing a first configuration associated with a first VRF instance of a service forwarding node that is connected to a first service of a service chain sequence. The first configuration may indicate an identifier and a type associated with a second service of the service chain sequence where traffic is to be sent after the first service. Additionally, the techniques may also include storing a second configuration associated with a second VRF instance of the service forwarding node that is connected to the second service. The second configuration may indicate that the second service is a last service of the service chain sequence. When traffic is received at the service forwarding node, the service forwarding node can determine whether the traffic is pre-service traffic or post-service traffic.

Abstract: Techniques for a Software-Defined Networking (SDN) controller associated with a multisite network to implement jurisdictional data sovereignty polices in a multisite network, route network traffic flows between user sites and destination services over one or more provider sites, and/or perform a routing operation on the network traffic flow(s) based on the jurisdictional data sovereignty policies. The jurisdictional data sovereignty polices may be implemented using destination group tags (DGTs) and/or source group tags (SGTs). A secure access service edge (SASE) associated with the network controller may generate, store, and distribute the DGTs to provider sites and/or the SGTs to user sites. Based on the SGT and/or DGT associated with a network traffic flow, one or more services may be applied to the network traffic flow, and the network traffic flow may be routed through a particular region of a software-defined access (SDA) transit.

Abstract: A method for managing crisis-related communications includes storing, in a repository, data regarding entities and data indicating relationships between entities. Crisis-related information items are received from a plurality of originating entities. Each crisis-related information item includes metadata attributes. For each crisis-related information item, a set of recipient entities is identified based on the metadata attributes, and the data regarding entities and the data indicating relationships between entities stored in the repository. For a particular crisis-related information item, a new message associated with the particular crisis-related information item is composed. The new message is distributed to a corresponding set of recipient entities identified for the particular crisis-related information item.

Abstract: A method for managing crisis-related communications includes storing, in a repository, data regarding entities and data indicating relationships between entities. Crisis-related information items are received from a plurality of originating entities. Each crisis-related information item includes metadata attributes. For each crisis-related information item, a set of recipient entities is identified based on the metadata attributes, and the data regarding entities and the data indicating relationships between entities stored in the repository. For a particular crisis-related information item, a new message associated with the particular crisis-related information item is composed. The new message is distributed to a corresponding set of recipient entities identified for the particular crisis-related information item.

Abstract: A crisis-related information hub manages the exchange of crisis-related information among multiple individual users and organizations. A safety communications service (SCS) manages information flow between users and organizations without compromising the security of the private networks of organizations protected by firewalls. The SCS manages relationship data for controlling what information is received by particular users and organizations, providing subscription services including relationship generation services based on configurable business rules. User-initiated communications are routed to multiple organizations and/or other users based on configurable business rules using user and organization attributes. Organization-initiated communications are routed to individual users or organizations based on configurable business rules using user and organization attributes.

Abstract: A crisis-related information hub manages the exchange of crisis-related information among multiple individual users and organizations. A safety communications service (SCS) manages information flow between users and organizations without compromising the security of the private networks of organizations protected by firewalls. The SCS manages relationship data for controlling what information is received by particular users and organizations, providing subscription services including relationship generation services based on configurable business rules. User-initiated communications are routed to multiple organizations and/or other users based on configurable business rules using user and organization attributes. Organization-initiated communications are routed to individual users or organizations based on configurable business rules using user and organization attributes.

Abstract: A crisis information exchange manages the exchange of crisis-related information among multiple individual users and organizations. A safety communications service (SCS) manages information flow between users and organizations without compromising the security of the private networks of organizations protected by firewalls. The SCS manages subscription data for controlling what information is received by particular users and organizations, providing subscription services including automated subscriptions services based on configurable business rules. User-initiated communications are routed to multiple organizations and/or other users based on configurable business rules. Organization-initiated communications are routed to multiple individual users and/or organizations based on configurable business rules.