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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2023
Filed:
Aug. 26, 2021
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
Systems and methods include one or more processing devices configured to implement a Network Operating System (NOS) that is configured to switch frames, wherein the one or more processing devices are connected to a plurality of Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) configured to operate in a chain having a service flow, and wherein the NOS is configured to implement frame classification for the frames in order to distribute the frames to the plurality of VNFs, such that some of the plurality of VNFs process a subset of the frames.