公开(公告)号：US09047143B2

公开(公告)日：2015-06-02

申请号：US13844326

申请日：2013-03-15

Applicant: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.

Inventor： Richard M. Pruss ,  John E. McDowall ,  Jan Medved ,  Larry Abrahams

IPC: G06F3/00 ,  G06F9/44 ,  G06F9/46 ,  G06F13/00 ,  G06F9/54

CPC classification number: H04L67/10 ,  G06F9/54 ,  G06F9/541 ,  H04L41/0803 ,  H04L41/5096

Abstract: System, method, and computer program product to orchestrate software defined networking (SDN) applications, by providing a plurality of network elements in a network, each network element comprising a plurality of ingress interfaces, a plurality of egress interfaces, and a routing information base (RIB), providing, to an SDN application, an application program interface (API) to abstract properties and events of: (i) the ingress interfaces, (ii) the egress interfaces, and (iii) the RIB of a specified network element, receiving a request from the SDN application apply a function to the specified network element, the function specifying to modify: (i) a preprocessing operation on a data packet, (ii) the RIB, (iii) a post processing operation on the data packet, and (iv) the properties of the ingress interfaces, egress interfaces, and RIBs of the specified network element, and applying the function to the specified network element through the API.

Abstract translation: 通过在网络中提供多个网元来配置软件定义网络（SDN）应用的系统，方法和计算机程序产品，每个网元包括多个入口接口，多个出口接口和路由信息库 （RIB），向SDN应用提供应用程序接口（API）以抽象出属性和事件：（i）入口接口，（ii）出口接口，和（iii）指定网元的RIB 接收来自SDN应用程序的请求应用于指定网元的功能，指定修改的功能：（i）对数据包进行预处理操作，（ii）RIB，（iii）对数据进行后处理操作 数据包，以及（iv）指定网元的入口接口，出接口和RIB的属性，并通过API将该功能应用于指定的网元。