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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2011
James Kempf, Mountain View, CA (US);
Neda Beheshti-zavareh, San Jose, CA (US);
Ying Zhang, San Jose, CA (US);
Tord K. Nilsson, Bohus-Björkö, SE;
Bengt E. Johansson, Västra Frölunda, SE;
Sten Rune Pettersson, Torslanda, SE;
Harald Luning, Gothenburg, SE;
James Kempf, Mountain View, CA (US);
Neda Beheshti-Zavareh, San Jose, CA (US);
Ying Zhang, San Jose, CA (US);
Tord K. Nilsson, Bohus-Björkö, SE;
Bengt E. Johansson, Västra Frölunda, SE;
Sten Rune Pettersson, Torslanda, SE;
Harald Luning, Gothenburg, SE;
Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ), Stockholm, SE;
Abstract
A method for implementing a general packet radio service (GPRS) tunnel protocol (GTP) in a packet core (PC) of a third generation (3G) network having a split architecture where a control plane of the PC of the 3G network is in a cloud computing system, the cloud computing system including a controller, the controller to execute a plurality of control plane modules, the control plane to communicate with the data plane of the PC through a control plane protocol, the data plane implemented in a plurality of network elements of the 3G network by configuring switches implementing a data plane of the SGSN and GGSN and intermediate switches to establish a first and second GTP tunnel endpoint.