Juniper Networks, Inc.

Sankar Ramanoorthi

Nazar A Zaidi

Elango Ganesan

Michael Freed

Ramesh Panwar

Mark Bryers

Yen C Lee

John Phillips

Yuhong Zhou

Gregory G Spurrier

David T Hass

Robert G Hathaway

Abbas Rashid

Frederick R Gruner

Ricardo Ramirez

Mark Vilas

Chau Anh Ngoc Nguyen

Thyagarajan S Pasupathy

Nagaraja Manikkar Shenoy

Mohan Thangavel

Radhakrishnan G

Saurav Shaw

Vaibhav Belliappa

Chau Ahn Ngoc Nguyen

In general, the disclosure describes techniques for dynamic application service level agreement (SLA) metric generation, distribution, and intent-based Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) link selection. For instance, a network device may determine a metric associated with an application or application-group. The network device may send the metric to a controller, and in response may receive from the controller a recommended SLA metric associated with the application or application-group. The network device may also compute an intent-based SLA metric based on the recommended SLA metric, one or more characteristics of one or more links connected to the network device, and a user configured intent model that defines a tolerance level to apply the recommended SLA metric. The network device may select, based on the intent-based SLA metric, a path to send traffic from the application or application-group.

Dynamic application SLA metric generation, distribution, and intent-based SD-WAN link selection

A network content service apparatus includes a set of compute elements adapted to perform a set of network services; and a switching fabric coupling compute elements in said set of compute elements. The set of network services includes firewall protection, Network Address Translation, Internet Protocol forwarding, bandwidth management, Secure Sockets Layer operations, Web caching, Web switching, and virtual private networking. Code operable on the compute elements enables the network services, and the compute elements are provided on blades which further include at least one input/output port.

Content service aggregation system

An architecture for controlling a multiprocessing system to provide at least one network service to subscriber data packets transmitted in the system using a plurality of compute elements, comprising a management compute element including service set-up information for at least one service and at least one processing compute element applying said at least one network service to said data packets and communicating service set-up information with the management compute element in order to perform service specific operations on data packets. In a further embodiment, a method of controlling a processing system including a plurality of processors is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of operating at least one of said processors as a control authority providing service provisioning information for a subscriber; and operating a set of processors as a service specific compute element responsive to the control authority, receiving provisioning information from the subscriber and performing service specific instructions on data packets to provide IP content services.

Content service aggregation device for a data center

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Sankar Ramanoorthi