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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 2016
Filed:
May. 15, 2013
Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;
James Kempf, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ramesh Mishra, San Jose, CA (US);
Ravi Manghirmalani, Fremont, CA (US);
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm, SE;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for providing network services orchestration are described herein. The apparatus comprises a network controller that runs a network services orchestration module. The network services orchestration module has a service management northbound application programming interface (API), an instance management submodule, an autoscaling and power management submodule, and an instance location southbound API. A steering module is also described herein that includes a steering northbound API and an instance location northbound API.