SERVICE CHAINING WITH PHYSICAL NETWORK FUNCTIONS AND VIRTUALIZED NETWORK FUNCTIONS

    公开(公告)号:US20220070081A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-03

    申请号:US17454979

    申请日:2021-11-15

    Abstract: Techniques are described in which a centralized controller, such as a software defined networking (SDN) controller, constructs a service chain that includes a physical network function (PNF) between a bare metal server (BMS) and a virtual execution element (e.g., virtual machine or container), or in some instances a remote BMS, or vice-versa. In accordance with the techniques disclosed herein, the controller may construct an inter-network service chain that includes PNFs, or a combination of PNFs and virtualized network functions (VNFs). The controller may construct an inter-network service chain to steer traffic between a BMS and a virtual execution element or remote BMS through an inter-network service chain using Virtual Extensible Local Area Network (VXLAN) as an underlying transport technology through the service chain.

    CONTAINERIZED ROUTER WITH A DISJOINT DATA PLANE

    公开(公告)号:US20220286940A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-09-08

    申请号:US17649640

    申请日:2022-02-01

    Abstract: In general, this disclosure describes techniques for a containerized router operating within a cloud native orchestration framework. In an example, a computing device comprises processing circuity; a containerized set of workloads; a containerized routing protocol process configured to execute on the processing circuitry and configured to receive routing information; a kernel network stack executing on the processing circuitry and configured to forward packets based on first routing information from the containerized routing protocol process; and a data plane development kit (DPDK)-based virtual router executing on processing circuitry and configured to forward traffic to and from the workloads based on second routing information from the containerized routing protocol process.

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