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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 15, 2016
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Hendrikus G. P. Bosch, Aalsmeer, NL;
Sape Jurriën Mullender, Amsterdam, NL;
Jeffrey Napper, Delft, NL;
Surendra M. Kumar, San Ramon, CA (US);
Alessandro Duminuco, Milan, IT;
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Particular embodiments described herein provide for a communication system that can be configured for receiving, at a network element, a flow offload decision for a first service node. The flow offload decision can include a portion of a service chain for processing a flow and updating next hop flow based routing information for the flow. A next hop in the flow can insert flow specific route information in its routing tables to bypass a packet forwarder serving the service that offloaded the flow in the reverse direction.