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Shared service access for multi-tenancy in a data center fabric

US10320672B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Cisco Technology, Inc. · US

Inventors

Satyam Sinha · Sunnyvale, US
Smita Rai · Mountain View, US
Kit Chiu Chu · Fremont, US
Ashutosh Agrawal · Mumbai, IN
Wanli Wu · Sunnyvale, US
Ravikanth Nasika · Fremont, US
Thomas J. Edsall · Los Gatos, US
Geetha Anandakrishnan · Sunnyvale, US

Key dates

Filing date	May 3, 2016
Grant date	Jun 11, 2019
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Sep 1, 2036

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04L67/53
WIPO fieldDigital communication
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Aspects of the embodiments include receiving a packet at a network element of a packet-switched network; identifying a presence of a shared service destination address in a header of the packet; identifying a shared service destination address for the packet based, at least in part, on a destination internet protocol (IP) address stored in a forward information base; and forwarding the packet to the shared service destination address.

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