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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2024
Filed:
Jul. 24, 2018
Nokia Technologies Oy, Espoo, FI;
NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY, Espoo, FI;
Abstract
A method, device and computer readable medium for delivering packets. The method comprises in response to receipt of, at a first VNFC, a data-plane packet for a terminal device, performing a predetermined transport processing of the packet to obtain a processed packet (); the packet including a network address of the first VNFC as a destination address; forwarding the processed packet from the first VNFC to a virtual switch (); and delivering the processed packet from the virtual switch to a second VNFC based on a first mapping between an identity of the terminal device and an identity of the second VNFC (); the second VNFC separated from the first VNFC, the second VNFC serving the terminal device and including at least one first data-plane application.