Switches, or gateways, which transfer or Switch traffic, such as packets, from one or more
sources to one or more destinations. The nodes may operate on the traffic as the traffic
traverses the network, such as by forwarding or filtering the packets associated with the
traffic. Nodes may rely on third party services (eg, off-box ser vices). Such as services
provided via a network device, another network (eg, a cloud-based service), etc., to classify …