- Patent Title: Policy mapping methods and apparatus for use in interconnecting software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) fabrics with mobile networks for communications with UEs
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Application No.: US16181142Application Date: 2018-11-05
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Publication No.: US10932322B2Publication Date: 2021-02-23
- Inventor: Oliver James Bull , Louis Gwyn Samuel
- Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Main IPC: H04W92/02
- IPC: H04W92/02 ; H04W28/02 ; H04L12/46

Abstract:
In one illustrative example, an interface between a user plane function (UPF) instance of a mobile network and a tunnel router endpoint of an enterprise software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) fabric is provided. The UPF instance may be part of a network slice that is (uniquely) associated with an enterprise of the enterprise SD-WAN. A plurality of mappings between policies associated with different QoS flows via the UPF instance and SD-WAN policies associated with different virtual private networks (VPNs) of the SD-WAN fabric may be maintained. Each VPN of the SD-WAN fabric may be associated with a different underlying transport mechanism that satisfies characteristics of a specific SD-WAN policy. Communications for user equipment (UE) in the mobile network may be facilitated across the SD-WAN fabric based on the policy mappings.
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