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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 08, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 12, 2012
Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Yunsong Lu, Mountain View, CA (US);
Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus are disclosed for network resource virtual partitioning. An embodiment method includes mapping a plurality of hardware functions at a plurality of physical network interface devices into a plurality of virtual partitions (VPs) implemented using software, wherein the VPs are configured to manage and operate independent from one another the corresponding hardware functions at the physical network interface devises. An embodiment apparatus includes a processor configured to aggregate a plurality of hardware functions at a plurality of physical network interface devices into a plurality of virtual partition aggregations (VPAs), wherein the VPAs are configured to manage and operate independent from one another a plurality of corresponding subsets of the hardware functions to serve one or more clients.