Cisco Technology, Inc.

Joe Sutton

Brian Richard Sarbin

Michael Francis O'Gorman

Yegappan Lakshmanan

Michael Yeung

Andrew Persaud

Simon James Trevor Spraggs

Andrew Phillips

Nagaraj Arunkumar

Lang Zhang

Vinay Singla

A device is configured to support one or more virtual networking functions at a branch in a network. The device receives from a central control entity a command to deploy a particular virtual networking function, the command including or accompanied by a deployment file that identifies an external port at which the particular virtual networking function is accessed externally at the device. The device maps the external port to an internal port on an internal management network of the device, and stores a portmapping entry for the particular virtual networking function based on the mapping. The device sends to the central control entity a notification containing portmapping information that indicates the internal port to which the external port is mapped.

Addressing and managing an internal network of a virtual branch node

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Joe Sutton