At&t Intellectual Property I, LP

At&t Mobility Ii LLC

At&t Global Network Services (u.k.) B.v.

Prasanna Ramachandran

Vijay Gopalakrishnan

Zihui Ge

Jennifer Yates

Ajay Mahimkar

Christopher May

Sendhil Chokkalingam

Srinivasan Ramakrishnan

Gur Rotkop

Deborah Cathey

A system is described whereby a cloud router may allow routing as a service in a cloud-like manner. In an example, an apparatus may include a processor and a memory coupled with the processor that effectuates operations. The operations may include receiving first routing information associated with a first customer edge device; adding the first routing information to network routing information of the apparatus, wherein the network routing information comprises a network routing table with routes for a plurality of networks; and propagating the network routing information to a software defined network (SDN) controller, wherein, based on the network routing information, the SDN controller sends a forwarding information base (FIB) to a provider edge device connected with the first customer edge device.

Cloud router platform for SDN networks

A method includes measuring a first performance metric of a network comprising a plurality of virtual network functions (VNFs). The method also includes executing tasks to implement the software change on a first VNF set. The method also includes measuring a second performance metric of the network after at least one of the tasks has been completed and comparing the first performance metric to the second performance metric to determine a recommendation for whether to deploy the software change on the plurality of VNFs. The tasks are based upon a change management workflow created using a graphical model, the graphical model comprising modular building blocks selected from a change management catalog.

Managing software changes to virtual network functions

Components may provide functionality which separate operation functions in a separate entity, isolate the functions as reusable, and connect them in a control loop in an SDN environment.

Operational micro-services design, development, deployment

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