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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 04, 2018
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Ed Warnicke, Austin, TX (US);
William Mark Townsley, Paris, FR;
CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In an embodiment, a method comprises, in response to receiving a packet that is associated with initiating a client-server session, transmitting a workload request to a workload orchestrator; the workload orchestrator selecting a selected server, from among a plurality of available geographically or logically distributed servers in network edge computing nodes, to process the client-server session; the workload orchestrator transmitting a request to the selected server to create a workload to process the client-server session; receiving, from the workload orchestrator, data identifying the selected server; forwarding one or more other packets associated with the same client-server session to the selected server; wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.