Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Jason T Wright

Ravi Potluri

Kristen Sydney Young

Umashankar Velusamy

Sachinder D Reddy

Yang Xu

Sunny Pal Singh

John J Joyce

Hans Raj Nahata

Elaine Harvey

Viswanath Kumar Skand Priya

Deepak Majjiga

Lawrence A Wimble

Wayne A Mitzen

Abhishek Kumar

Neeraj Bhatt

John M Sleggs

Elaine M Harvey

A method, a network device, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are described in relation to a secure operations, administration, and management (OAM) for remote networks service. The service may categorize performance metric (PM), fault metric (FM) data, and other types of data associated with a virtualized network device of a private network and provide such data to an OAM system of an operator network via a blockchain network or not based on the categorization. The OAM system may also manage orchestration and maintenance of the private network including the virtualized network device based on configuration data transmitted via the blockchain network or not. The virtualized network device may be a radio access network device, a core network device, or an edge server device. The secure OAM for remote networks service may also store service assurance policies as a smart contract in the blockchain network.

Method and system for secure operations, administration, and management for remote networks

Systems and methods described herein provide life cycle management for physical network function (PNFs) via an orchestrator using PNF proxies. A network device in a service provider network receives a software package for a virtual network function (VNF) serving as PNF proxy for a type of PNF. The software package includes a proxy descriptor and external virtual links (VLs) for the type of PNF. The network device associates, an instance of the PNF proxy with an installed PNF, creates the instance of the PNF proxy as a VNF in a cloud platform, and provides a record of the created instance of the PNF proxy to an active inventory system.

System and methods for managing physical network functions via orchestration

One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for upgrading sites of a communication network are provided. Operational information of network functions within a communication network are tracked within a data repository. An upgrade ruleset is defined for identifying sites within a communication network to upgrade. The operational information, the upgrade ruleset, and model rules generated by a model for a set of candidate sites are processed to generate a positive list of sites to upgrade and a negative list of sites to not upgrade. The negative list of sites and criteria used to determine that the negative list of sites are not being upgraded are provided such as to a user. An upgrade process is performed to upgrade the sites within the positive list of sites.

Methods and systems for upgrading sites of a communication network

In some implementations, a first device may receive, from a second device, network function (NF) configuration information indicating that an NF instance is to be provisioned to support a combination of network slices. The NF configuration information may include first network slice information regarding the first network slice and second network slice information regarding the second network slice. The first device may obtain, from a data structure, first slice configuration information associated with the NF instance supporting the first network slice and second slice configuration information associated with the NF instance supporting the second network slice. The first device may generate configuration parameters to provision the NF instance to support the combination of network slices and provide the configuration parameters to cause the NF instance to be provisioned to support the combination of network slices.

Systems and methods for automating network slice configuration

Systems and methods described herein provide deployment optimization service. A network device in a network receives an order for virtual network function (VNF) deployments at network edge locations. The network device maps a radio access network (RAN) topology for the network edge locations. The network device identifies time windows to perform the VNF deployments, based on the order, historical transport and RAN utilization data, and the RAN topology. The network device selects an optimal time window to perform the VNF deployments based on stored policy rules and pushes software images for the VNF deployments to an image repository in a geographical region near the network edge locations. The network device analyzes, for the optimal time window, real-time network data for a pre-emptive condition. The network device pre-empts the VNF deployments when a pre-emptive condition is identified and initiates the VNF deployments when no pre-emptive condition is identified.

Network-aware deployment optimization for large scale virtual network function deployments at a network edge

A system including a transmitter, a receiver, and a conduit is provided. The transmitter is within a first network, and is in communication with at least one other device within the first network. The receiver is within a second network, and is in communication with at least one other device within the second network. The conduit is formed between the transmitter and the receiver, and is capable of carrying a signal transmitted from the transmitter to the receiver. To maintain the unidirectional nature of the conduit, either the transmitter is incapable of receiving any signal via the conduit or the receiver is incapable of transmitting any signal via the conduit.

Method and system for providing secure one-way transfer of data

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