Wi-Fi network failover to cellular connection with throttling of traffic
Systems and methods for Wi-Fi network failover to cellular connection with throttling of traffic include detecting an outage on wired connections for any of the plurality of Wi-Fi networks; determining the any of the plurality of Wi-Fi networks have switched to a cellular connection as a failover based on the outage; and determining whether to throttle traffic on any cellular connection based on the failover and instructing corresponding gateways accordingly.
1. A method implemented by a cloud service coupled to a plurality of Wi-Fi networks, the method comprising:
detecting an outage on wired connections for any of the plurality of Wi-Fi networks;
determining the any of the plurality of Wi-Fi networks have switched to a cellular connection as a failover based on the outage; and
determining whether to throttle traffic on any cellular connection based on the failover and instructing corresponding gateways accordingly.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the traffic is throttled based on any of specific applications and specific uses.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the traffic is throttled based on virtual or conceptual local networks that are operational in the plurality of Wi-Fi networks and that have different priorities.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the determining whether to throttle traffic is based on any of the outage and the failover being above a certain number of Wi-Fi networks.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the determining whether to throttle traffic is based on feedback from a cellular control plane to the cloud service.
6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the determining whether to throttle traffic is based on a subscription of associated users of the plurality of Wi-Fi networks.
7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
steering the corresponding gateways to different base stations to limit a load on any given base station.
8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving information from the corresponding gateways related to the cellular connection including an identification of a corresponding base station.
9. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving information from the corresponding gateways related to the cellular connection including an identification of visible base stations; and
steering the corresponding gateways to different base stations.
10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the traffic is throttled based on assigning the traffic to different types of cellular connections including 4G or 5G.
11. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving advertisements from the any of the plurality of Wi-Fi networks based on different cellular band capabilities; and
instructing the corresponding gateways based on the different cellular band capabilities.
12. A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions that, when executed, cause one or more processors to implement a cloud service to perform steps of:
detecting an outage on wired connections for any of the plurality of Wi-Fi networks;
determining the any of the plurality of Wi-Fi networks have switched to a cellular connection as a failover based on the outage; and
determining whether to throttle traffic on any cellular connection based on the failover and instructing corresponding gateways accordingly.
13. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 12 , wherein the traffic is throttled based on any of specific applications and specific uses.
14. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 12 , wherein the traffic is throttled based on virtual or conceptual local networks that are operational in the plurality of Wi-Fi networks and that have different priorities.
15. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 12 , wherein the determining whether to throttle traffic is based on any of the outage and the failover being above a certain number of Wi-Fi networks.
16. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 12 , wherein the determining whether to throttle traffic is based on feedback from a cellular control plane to the cloud service.
17. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 12 , wherein the determining whether to throttle traffic is based on a subscription of associated users of the plurality of Wi-Fi networks.
18. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 12 , wherein the steps further include:
steering the corresponding gateways to different base stations to limit a load on any given base station.
19. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 12 , wherein the steps further include:
receiving information from the corresponding gateways related to the cellular connection including an identification of a corresponding base station.
20. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 12 , wherein the steps further include:
receiving information from the corresponding gateways related to the cellular connection including an identification of visible base stations; and
steering the corresponding gateways to different base stations.