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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 17, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2013
Big Switch Networks, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Sumit Arun Naiksatam, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Kanzhe Jiang, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Gregor Mathias Maier, Alameda, CA (US);
Srinivasan Ramasubramanian, Redwood City, CA (US);
Sudeep Dilip Modi, Milpitas, CA (US);
Robert W. Sherwood, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Mandeep Singh Dhami, San Jose, CA (US);
Michael Cohen, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Big Switch Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A controller implemented on computing equipment may be used to control switches in a network. End hosts and service devices may be coupled to the switches in the network. The controller may generate a virtual network topology of virtual switches and virtual routers. The controller may control the virtual routers and/or virtual switches to perform service insertion. The controller may perform service insertion by controlling the virtual routers and/or virtual switches to redirect network traffic through one or more selected service devices. The controller may determine which network traffic is to be redirected to which service devices based on a service insertion policy that identifies network traffic and services to be performed on the network traffic.