公开(公告)号：US20190182153A1

公开(公告)日：2019-06-13

申请号：US15839880

申请日：2017-12-13

Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Srinath GUNDAVELLI ,  Dhananjay Shrikrishna PATKI

IPC: H04L12/715 ,  H04L12/725 ,  H04L29/12 ,  H04W8/08 ,  H04L12/24

Abstract: In one embodiment an apparatus comprising networking circuitry, and processing circuitry, the processing circuitry adapted to receive, via the networking circuitry, at least one indication of at least one service chain that is associated with a user plane anchor selected for anchoring a user equipment, out of a plurality of service chains in a network, the apparatus being the user equipment or being a host behind the user equipment, and the at least one service chain being fewer in number than the plurality of service chains, and use the at least one indication to direct at least one packet to at least one service function in the at least one service chain.