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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 03, 2014
Applicant:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Surendra Kumar, San Ramon, CA (US);
David Chang, Milpitas, CA (US);
Nagaraj Bagepalli, Fremont, CA (US);
Abhijit Patra, Saratoga, CA (US);
Assignee:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/00 (2006.01); H04L 12/803 (2013.01); H04L 12/911 (2013.01); H04L 12/721 (2013.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 47/125 (2013.01); H04L 47/782 (2013.01); H04L 41/50 (2013.01); H04L 45/38 (2013.01); H04L 63/20 (2013.01);
Abstract
Presented herein are elastic service chain techniques. In one example, a network element receives data traffic to be processed by a service chain that specifies an ordered sequence of service pools including a first service pool and second service pool, wherein each service pool comprises a plurality of network services. A network service is determined from the first service pool to be applied to the data traffic, and data traffic is forwarded to the network service in the first service pool.