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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2020
Filed:
May. 30, 2017
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Chiajen Tsai, Cupertino, CA (US);
Ganesh Sundaram, San Jose, CA (US);
Muthumayan Madhayyan, San Jose, CA (US);
Chunhui Wong, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Larry T. Chang, Saratoga, CA (US);
CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a network functions virtualization infrastructure can be managed in a decentralized fashion. A front end can receive a request to provision a virtualized network function. The front end can create service descriptors for the request according to the virtualized network function, the service descriptors comprising a hierarchy of information elements organized based on distributed back-end agents operable to provision and manage the virtualized network function. The front end can store the service descriptors in a distributed data store.