公开(公告)号：US10063468B2

公开(公告)日：2018-08-28

申请号：US14997212

申请日：2016-01-15

Applicant: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.

Inventor： Hendrikus G. P. Bosch ,  Sape Jurriën Mullender ,  Jeffrey Napper ,  Surendra M. Kumar ,  Alessandro Duminuco

IPC: H04L12/50 ,  H04L12/721 ,  H04L12/741

CPC classification number: H04L45/38 ,  H04L45/745

Abstract: Particular embodiments described herein provide for a communication system that can be configured for receiving, at a network element, a flow offload decision for a first service node. The flow offload decision can include a portion of a service chain for processing a flow and updating next hop flow based routing information for the flow. A next hop in the flow can insert flow specific route information in its routing tables to bypass a packet forwarder serving the service that offloaded the flow in the reverse direction.

公开(公告)号：US20170208011A1

公开(公告)日：2017-07-20

申请号：US15171892

申请日：2016-06-02

Applicant: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.

Inventor： Hendrikus G.P. Bosch ,  Jeffrey Napper ,  Alessandro Duminuco ,  Humberto J. La Roche ,  Sape Jurriën Mullender ,  Surendra M. Kumar ,  Louis Gwyn Samuel ,  Bart A. Brinckman ,  Aeneas Sean Dodd-Noble ,  Luca Martini

IPC: H04L12/825 ,  H04L12/26 ,  H04L12/801

CPC classification number: H04L47/25 ,  H04L41/0896 ,  H04L45/64 ,  H04L47/29

Abstract: An example method is provided in one example embodiment and may include receiving traffic associated with at least one of a mobile network and a Gi-Local Area Network (Gi-LAN), wherein the traffic comprises one or more packets; determining a classification of the traffic to a service chain, wherein the service chain comprises one or more service functions associated at least one of one or more mobile network services and one or more Gi-LAN services; routing the traffic through the service chain; and routing the traffic to a network using one of a plurality of egress interfaces, wherein each egress interface of the plurality of egress interfaces is associated with at least one of the one or more mobile network services and the one or more Gi-LAN services.