公开(公告)号：US20180131565A1

公开(公告)日：2018-05-10

申请号：US15485056

申请日：2017-04-11

Applicant: METASWITCH NETWORKS LTD.

Inventor： Matthew WILLIAMS ,  Michael EVANS ,  Jonathan LAWN ,  Calum LOUDON ,  Diarmid MACKENZIE

IPC: H04L12/24 ,  H04L12/46

Abstract: Measures, including methods, apparatuses and non-transitory computer-readable storage media, associated with network orchestration. A model of a physical resources part of a network and a model of a virtualised resources part of the network are obtained. The physical/virtualised resources part of the network includes a plurality of physical resources/at least one virtualised network function and represents dependencies between different physical/virtualised resources in the physical/virtualised resources part of the network. At least one optimisation operation is performed using the models of the physical and virtualised resources parts of the network to identify an optimised mapping of the at least one virtualised network function onto at least one of the plurality of physical resources. The at least one virtualised network function is instantiated on the at least one of the plurality of physical resources based on the identified optimised mapping.