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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2025
Filed:
Nov. 03, 2022
Keysight Technologies, Inc., Santa Rosa, CA (US);
Christian Paul Sommers, Bangor, CA (US);
Peter J. Marsico, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
KEYSIGHT TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Santa Rosa, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for smartswitch service chaining are disclosed. One example method occurs at a smartswitch controller implemented using at least one processor, the method comprising: receiving service chain configuration information indicating a service chain involving services performed using data processing units (DPUs) in at least one smartswitch; generating, using the service chain configuration information, one or more switching rules for causing traffic at the at least one smartswitch to be directed to one or more of the DPUs associated with the service chain; and providing the one or more switching rules to the at least one smartswitch or a management entity for implementing the one or more switching rules at the at least one smartswitch.