EQUINIX INC. (20250088425). DEEP NETWORK SLICING WITH VIRTUALIZED PROGRAMMABLE DATA-PLANE PIPELINES

DEEP NETWORK SLICING WITH VIRTUALIZED PROGRAMMABLE DATA-PLANE PIPELINES

Organization Name

EQUINIX INC.

Inventor(s)

Oleg Berzin of Huntington Valley PA (US)

DEEP NETWORK SLICING WITH VIRTUALIZED PROGRAMMABLE DATA-PLANE PIPELINES

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 20250088425 titled 'DEEP NETWORK SLICING WITH VIRTUALIZED PROGRAMMABLE DATA-PLANE PIPELINES

Original Abstract Submitted

this disclosure describes systems, methods, and apparatus for network slicing with programmable data-plane pipelines, comprising creating slice contexts, mapping resources of network switch hardware to the slice contexts to create a resource mapping, instantiating the plurality of network slices on the network switch hardware using the resource mapping, receiving frames from one or more external sources, identifying a network slice corresponding to each frame, and enriching a header of each of the frames, based upon the identification of the network slice for each frame, to direct each frame to a data-plane pipeline.