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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 2023
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2020
Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sandip Kumar Ghosh, Bangalore, IN;
Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
In the present disclosure, systems and techniques for network device hardware containerization is described. In one example, a network device of a network having a topology of network devices includes processing circuitry of a routing component wherein the processing circuitry generates user space containers to operate forwarding engines in each of a plurality of forwarding components of the network device; stores information for directing communications involving the plurality of forwarding components and the network devices; and configures, by at least one user space container running on the processing circuitry of the routing component, one or more corresponding forwarding engines in a respective forwarding component using the information.