Vendor-neutral policy based mechanism for enabling firewall service in an MPLS-VPN service network
US8914868B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Mar 3, 2006 |
| Grant date | Dec 16, 2014 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 28, 2033 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L63/0272
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A technique that simplifies managing and configuring firewalls by provisioning a vendor-neutral firewall in an MPLS-VPN service network. In one example embodiment, this is accomplished by creating a vendor-neutral firewall policy using a service activation tool residing in a host server. One of the one or more VPNs requiring the provisioning of the vendor-neutral firewall in the MPLS-VPN service network is then selected. The created vendor-neutral firewall policy is then transformed to form a vendor-specific firewall policy associated with the selected one of the one or more VPNs.
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