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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2022
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2020
At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);
James Fan, San Ramon, CA (US);
Alireza Hooshiari, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Dan Celenti, Holmdel, NJ (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
A processing system may obtain a request to deploy a service comprising a first virtual network function (VNF) to a multi-cloud environment comprising cloud infrastructures, the request including metadata associated with the service, decompose the service into a plurality of modules comprising: a plurality of VNFs and/or a plurality of components of the first VNF, select at least a first deployment model for the service from among a plurality of deployment models, based upon the metadata, each deployment model comprising rules for assigning the plurality of modules to cloud infrastructures, and deploy a first module to a first cloud infrastructure and a second module to a second cloud infrastructure.