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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2014
Applicant:
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Arlington, VA (US);
Inventor:
Nabil N. Bitar, Acton, MA (US);
Assignee:
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04L 12/741 (2013.01); H04L 12/723 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/74 (2013.01); H04L 45/50 (2013.01);
Abstract
An approach is provided for steering network traffic (e.g., IP traffic) based on dynamic routing to a service node or a chain of service nodes that can provide in-line services. In an exemplary embodiment, traffic is steered from a first router to an in-line service router by tunneling through a second router, wherein in-line service router is configured to provide in-line services to the traffic.