Distributed Software Defined Wireless Packet Core System

A distributed software defined network (SDN) packet core system comprising:

• a policy module configured to manage policies for client devices associated with the distributed SDN packet core system;
• a plurality of computer devices arranged geographically in proximity, and communicatively coupled, to a respective plurality of radio access points associated with at least two radio access technologies (RATs), the computer devices being configured to execute software modules for processing control messages and data packets of communication flows associated with the respective radio access points, the software modules including:
• a plurality of RAT-specific control-plane modules associated with the at least two radio access technologies (RATs), each RAT-specific control-plane module configured to execute signaling and control operations for communication flows associated with a respective RAT;
• and
• at least one data plane controller configured to receive packet processing requests from at least one RAT-specific control-plane module and forward the requests to one or more data-plane instances, wherein each of the one or more data plane instances includes a configuration module and at least one data-plane module, the configuration module configured to translate packet processing requests received from the at least one data-plan controller into a configuration specific to the at least one data-plan module.