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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2022
Filed:
May. 28, 2021
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Hendrikus G. P. Bosch, Aalsmeer, NL;
Jeffrey Napper, Delft, NL;
Alessandro Duminuco, Milan, IT;
Humberto J. La Roche, Ocean, NJ (US);
Sape Jurriën Mullender, Amsterdam, NL;
Surendra M. Kumar, San Ramon, CA (US);
Louis Gwyn Samuel, Swindon, GB;
Bart A. Brinckman, Nevele, BE;
Aeneas Sean Dodd-Noble, Andover, MA (US);
Luca Martini, Lakewood, CO (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
An example method is provided in one example embodiment and may include receiving traffic associated with at least one of a mobile network and a Gi-Local Area Network (data-plane), wherein the traffic comprises one or more packets; determining a classification of the traffic to a service chain, wherein the service chain comprises one or more service functions associated at least one of one or more mobile network services and one or more data-plane services; routing the traffic through the service chain; and routing the traffic to a network using one of a plurality of egress interfaces, wherein each egress interface of the plurality of egress interfaces is associated with at least one of the one or more mobile network services and the one or more data-plane services.