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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2013
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Richard M. Pruss, Queensland, AU;
John E. McDowall, Redwood City, CA (US);
Jan Medved, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Larry Abrahams, Los Altos, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
System, method, and computer program product to orchestrate software defined networking (SDN) applications, by providing a plurality of network elements in a network, each network element comprising a plurality of ingress interfaces, a plurality of egress interfaces, and a routing information base (RIB), providing, to an SDN application, an application program interface (API) to abstract properties and events of: (i) the ingress interfaces, (ii) the egress interfaces, and (iii) the RIB of a specified network element, receiving a request from the SDN application apply a function to the specified network element, the function specifying to modify: (i) a preprocessing operation on a data packet, (ii) the RIB, (iii) a post processing operation on the data packet, and (iv) the properties of the ingress interfaces, egress interfaces, and RIBs of the specified network element, and applying the function to the specified network element through the API.