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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 06, 2015
Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;
Mustafa Arisoylu, San Jose, CA (US);
Ramanathan Lakshmikanthan, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Albert Jining Tian, Cupertino, CA (US);
Himanshu Asnani, San Jose, CA (US);
Prashant Anand, Bangalore, IN;
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;
Abstract
Exemplary methods for performing service chaining include generating a plurality of service chaining (SC) next hops (NHs) by, for each SC NH hop, generating a plurality of SC maps, each SC map identifying a chain of one or more service modules, wherein each service module is to apply a corresponding service on a packet. The methods further include generating a plurality of hosted NHs, each hosted NH including forwarding information that causes the packet to be forwarded to a corresponding service module. The methods further include in response to receiving a first packet, identifying a SC NH of the plurality of SC NHs based on an Internet Protocol (IP) address of the first packet, and forwarding the first packet to a service module based on the identified SC NH.