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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 21, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 30, 2018
Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US);
Paul Curtis, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Marc Holness, Ottawa, CA;
Hossein Baheri, San Jose, CA (US);
Ankit Sood, San Jose, CA (US);
Pramod Kumar Aggarwal, San Jose, CA (US);
Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US);
Abstract
A Virtual Network Function (VNF) executed on a processing device includes one or more first Terminal Access Point (TAP) interfaces which are virtual network kernel interfaces and which are each mapped to an associated second TAP interface associated with a Network Operating System (NOS), wherein the associated second TAP interface is mapped to an associated physical port; and a processor configured to receive, transmit, and process select frames via the one or more first TAP interfaces, wherein the VNF is in a sideline configuration of a service flow, only receiving and transmitting the select frames of the service flow.