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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 25, 2015
At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);
Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Edison, NJ (US);
Angela L. Chiu, Holmdel, NJ (US);
Oliver Spatscheck, Randolph, NJ (US);
Chengwei Wang, Neshanic Station, NJ (US);
Yang Xu, Whitehouse Station, NJ (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
A provider edge ('PE') router system and a PE router system controller for hybrid virtualization of PE router functions is disclosed herein. According to one aspect of the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, a PE router system operating at a PE of a network includes an elastic computing system and a plurality of switches. The elastic computing system can include a plurality of hardware resources and a plurality of virtual machines. Each virtual machine of the plurality of virtual machines can utilize at least a portion of the plurality of hardware resources to perform operations. The plurality of virtual machines can include a port virtual machine that provides an interface to a customer edge ('CE') router operating at a CE of the network. The port virtual machine can provide a first set of operations. The plurality of switches can provide a second set of operations.