Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Service function chaining across multiple subnetworks
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Application No.: US15412282Application Date: 2017-01-23
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Publication No.: US10397108B2Publication Date: 2019-08-27
- Inventor: Hong Zhang , Fei Rao , Henry Louis Fourie , Farhad P. Sunavala
- Applicant: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US TX Plano
- Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Plano
- Agency: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
- Main IPC: H04L12/741
- IPC: H04L12/741 ; H04L12/46 ; H04L29/12

Abstract:
A method for service function chaining across subnetworks includes receiving a packet at a virtual switch integration bridge from a first service function (SF) that is in a service function chain (SFC) and that is on a first subnetwork, determining a next SF in the SFC in a different subnetwork, and sending the received packet directly from the virtual switch integration bridge to the next SF.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170214613A1 Service Function Chaining Across Multiple Subnetworks Public/Granted day:2017-07-27
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