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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2012
Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Jun Xu, Cupertino, CA (US);
Guang Zhao, Nanjing, CN;
Futurewei Technologies Co., Ltd., Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
A method implemented in an integrated edge node for performing routing functions and network appliance services at the edge of a network, the method comprising disassociating a first network feature from a port, creating a plurality of first internal virtual ports, associating the plurality of first internal virtual ports to a first network appliance service component and a core unit component, mapping the plurality first internal virtual ports to each other and to a plurality of ports, constructing an internal path comprising at least one port, a subset of the plurality of internal virtual ports, the network appliance service component, and the core unit component, and associating the first network feature to the internal path.