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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 01, 2022
Equinix, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
Oleg Berzin, Huntington Valley, PA (US);
EQUINIX INC., Redwood City, CA (US);
Abstract
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and apparatus for network slicing with programmable data-plane pipelines, comprising creating slice contexts, where creating the slice contexts comprises creating control-plane and data-plane data for each of a plurality of network slices, and storing the control-plane and the data-plane data to produce slice contexts, mapping resources of network switch hardware to the slice contexts to create a resource mapping, instantiating the plurality of network slices on the network switch hardware using the resource mapping, receiving frames from one or more external sources, identifying a network slice corresponding to each frame, and enriching a header of each of the frames, based upon the identification of the network slice for each frame, to direct each frame to a data-plane pipeline.