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Date of Patent:
Apr. 04, 2017

Filed:

Jan. 30, 2014
Applicant:

Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Surendra Kumar, San Ramon, CA (US);

Nagaraj Bagepalli, Fremont, CA (US);

Abhijit Patra, Saratoga, CA (US);

Paul Quinn, Wellesley, MA (US);

James Guichard, New Boston, NH (US);

Jayaraman Iyer, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 43/026 (2013.01); H04L 41/5041 (2013.01);
Abstract

Presented herein are service-function chaining techniques. In one example, a service controller in a network comprising a plurality of service nodes receives one is configured to identify one or more service-functions hosted by each of the service nodes. The service controller defines a service-function chain in terms of service-functions to be applied to traffic in the network and provides information descriptive of the service-function chain to a classifier node.


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