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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2017
Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Young Lee, Plano, TX (US);
Italo Busi, Cerro Maggiore, IT;
Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
A method implemented by a customer network controller (CNC) in a network comprises storing, by a memory of the CNC, a mapping between a virtual local area network (VLAN) identifier (ID) of a VLAN, an application ID of an application executed in the VLAN, and a service policy associated with the application, the service policy defining a network requirement for the application, the VLAN being associated with a customer edge (CE), transmitting, by a transmitter of the CNC, a tunnel creation request comprising the VLAN ID, the application ID, and the service policy, and storing, by the memory, a tunnel ID of a tunnel established in response to the tunnel creation request, the tunnel defining a path between an ingress provider edge (PE) node and an egress PE node that satisfies the service policy.