Cisco Technology, Inc.

Embrane, Inc.

Thomas Vincent Flynn

Marco Di Benedetto

Pierluigi Rolando

Vijay K Chander

Arthur Lihder Chang

Dante Malagrino

Alessandro Salvatori

Passing data over virtual links is disclosed, including: encapsulating a layer three data packet as an inner payload of a network data packet; and generating an outer header of the network data packet with a layer two header and a layer three header, wherein the network data packet is configured to communicate over a virtual link between a first interface of a first network appliance and a first interface of a second network appliance.

Passing data over virtual links

Creating virtual links including: determining a first network appliance to configure to communicate with a second network appliance using a virtual link, wherein the virtual link comprises a layer three overlay point-to-point data link; and determining the second network appliance to configure to communicate with the first network appliance using the virtual link.

Virtual links for network appliances

A distributed virtual appliance is disclosed, including: determining a classification type associated with the first flow; and determining an allocation of the first flow to the first data plane compute unit of the distributed virtual appliance based at least in part on the determined classification type and at least a subset of information of a first flow identifier, wherein the distributed virtual appliance includes a plurality of compute units, including the first data plane compute.

Distributed virtual appliance

Creating virtual links is disclosed, including: determining a first network appliance to configure to communicate with a second network appliance using a virtual link, wherein the virtual link comprises a layer three overlay point-to-point data link; and determining the second network appliance to configure to communicate with the first network appliance using the virtual link.

A distributed virtual appliance is disclosed, including: allocating network traffic to a plurality of compute units implementing a network service associated with the distributed virtual appliance; and dynamically adding or removing one or more compute units implementing the network service without disruption to the network traffic.

Growing community of inventors

Santa Clara, CA, United States of America

Thomas Vincent Flynn