Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Enabling enterprise segmentation with 5G slices in a service provider network
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Application No.: US16571365Application Date: 2019-09-16
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Publication No.: US11070422B2Publication Date: 2021-07-20
- Inventor: Oliver James Bull , Rex Emmanuel Fernando , Anand Oswal , Kausik Majumdar , Darren Russell Dukes , Sanjay Kumar Hooda
- 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
- Agency: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC
- Main IPC: H04L12/26
- IPC: H04L12/26 ; H04L12/24 ; H04L12/851 ; H04L12/815 ; H04L12/813 ; H04W84/04 ; H04W88/16

Abstract:
An enterprise controller of an enterprise network sends to a service gateway of a service provider network a request for network slice information about network slices provisioned on a data plane of the service provider network. Responsive to the sending, the enterprise controller receives from the service gateway the network slice information including identifiers of and properties associated with the network slices. Responsive to receiving a request for the network slice information from a network device at a border of a forwarding plane of the enterprise network, the enterprise controller sends the network slice information to the network device to cause the network device to perform configuring network traffic in the forwarding plane with identifiers of ones of the network slices that match the network traffic, and to perform forwarding the network traffic configured with the identifiers to the data plane of the service provider network.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210083933A1 ENABLING ENTERPRISE SEGMENTATION WITH 5G SLICES IN A SERVICE PROVIDER NETWORK Public/Granted day:2021-03-18
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