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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2022
Filed:
Aug. 21, 2019
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Kosuke Sakata, Tokyo, JP;
Yuji Soejima, Tokyo, JP;
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
[Problem] A lead time for providing a network service can be shortened. [Solution] A network service management apparatusthat uses resources included in a network functions virtualization infrastructureto provide a network service includes an orchestratorthat defines resources that satisfy a resource requirement of a virtual network function constituting the network service and are allocated to the virtual network function, and reserves the resources, and a virtualized infrastructure managerthat secures the reserved resources, activates the virtual network function on the secured resources, and generates the network service. When the securing of the reserved resources fails, the orchestratorre-reserves resources to replace the reserved resources, and the virtualized infrastructure managersecures the re-reserved resources, and activates the virtual network functions on the secured resources.