Cisco Technology, Inc.

Chunhui Wong

Chiajen Tsai

Ganesh Sundaram

Muthumayan Madhayyan

Larry Tzuchu Chang

This disclosure describes techniques for employing a collaborate traffic balancer in communications among network devices. The techniques include dynamic traffic engineering concepts to improve network communications. The techniques may include causing a headend device to establish a secure communication session between a client device and a server in a resource infrastructure supporting the service. The techniques may include selecting a tunnel for the secure communication session to reach the resource infrastructure. The techniques may further include migrating the secure communication session from a current tunnel to a new tunnel where a degradation in quality of the secure communication session is predicted.

Collaborative traffic balancer

In one embodiment, a network functions virtualization infrastructure can be managed in a decentralized fashion. A front end can receive a request to provision a virtualized network function. The front end can create service descriptors for the request according to the virtualized network function, the service descriptors comprising a hierarchy of information elements organized based on distributed back-end agents operable to provision and manage the virtualized network function. The front end can store the service descriptors in a distributed data store.

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Santa Clara, CA, United States of America

Chunhui Wong