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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2018
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2015
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Gary B. Mahaffey, Gilroy, CA (US);
Jayaraman R. Iyer, San Jose, CA (US);
Michel Khouderchah, Cupertino, CA (US);
Kent K. Leung, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Robert A. Mackie, Cary, NC (US);
Timothy P. Stammers, Raleigh, NC (US);
Hy Quoc Pham, San Jose, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes communicating a message from a network element to a remote data plane element in order to request a data plane resource for hosting a session for a particular subscriber. The remote data plane element is designated to host a data plane function for a particular mobile network subscriber and the data plane resource comprises at least one of memory space and processor allocation. The method further includes discovering nodes capable of supporting the control plane functions; discovering nodes capable of supporting the data plane functions for the session; and performing a system-specific internal configuration to support separation of the data plane functions and the control plane functions.