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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2013
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abraham R. Matthews, San Jose, CA (US);
Anna Berenberg, Los Altos, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems for managing a service provider switch are provided. According to one embodiment, a method is provided for provisioning a switch with a network-based managed Internet Protocol (IP) service. A network operating system (NOS) is provided on each processor element (PE) of the switch. The NOS includes an object manager (OM) responsible for managing global software object groups, managing software object configurations, managing local software objects and groups and routing control information between address spaces based on locations of software objects. The OM performs management plane communications among software objects by way of system calls. The OM performs data plane communications among software objects by way of object-to-object channels. The switch is provisioned with a network-based managed IP service for a particular customer by pushing discrete and customized software objects representing the network-based managed IP service onto an object-to-object channel established between two of the software objects.