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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2015
Xingjun Chu, Ottawa, CA;
Tao Wan, Ottawa, CA;
Guoli Yin, Ottawa, CA;
Yapeng Wu, Nepean, CA;
Peter Ashwood-smith, Gatineau, CA;
Yinfeng Henry Yu, Ottawa, CA;
Khaldoon Al-zoubi, Kanata, CA;
Xingjun Chu, Ottawa, CA;
Tao Wan, Ottawa, CA;
Guoli Yin, Ottawa, CA;
Yapeng Wu, Nepean, CA;
Peter Ashwood-Smith, Gatineau, CA;
Yinfeng Henry Yu, Ottawa, CA;
Khaldoon Al-Zoubi, Kanata, CA;
HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD., Shenzhen, Guangdong, CN;
Abstract
Routers using virtual routing and forwarding nodes to implement a service fabric of service chains. The router may configure M+1 virtual routing and forwarding instances, M being an integer representing a number of a plurality of service appliances in a data center network. Each virtual routing and forwarding instance may be associated with a routing table of routing rules to define various service chain routing paths. The routing rules are based on destination addresses in data packets.