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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 05, 2015
Nec Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Hayato Itsumi, Tokyo, JP;
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A management method and apparatus which allows easy management of virtual network function deployment on a network are provided. A network management apparatus generates an extended topology in which a virtual network function that can be deployed on a server is added as an extended node ((VNF(A), VNF(B)) to a topology of the network; and displays an optimum path (RP, RP, RP) in the extended topology on display means () when a requirement of at least one virtual network function and endpoint nodes involved in the requirement are input through an input means (), wherein the optimum path is obtained based on network resource information of the network and computing resource information of servers on which at least one virtual network function can be deployed.