Out-of box services cascading
AssigneeKoninklijke KPN N.V.
InventorsStephan Henri Cauwels, Sebastianus Maria Samsom
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Abstract
An efficient approach for cascading out-of-box services is disclosed. The inventive system has a packet router, with out-of-box interfaces, and out-of-box servers, the latter being connected to the interfaces and implementing the out-of-box services. The interfaces and the serves are configured in a virtual local area network (VLAN), as identified by a VLAN identifier (ID), which performs a specific number of the services and in a specific order on a stream of packets. The packet router, in a single action, routes packets with the VLAN ID to a particular VLAN in order to subject those packets to the number and order of services then associated with that VLAN ID.
Claims20
A system comprising a packet router connected to a plurality of out-of-box servers, the servers being configured for performing out-of-box services, wherein:
- said out-of-box servers are configured to form a virtual local area network (VLAN) identified by one VLAN identification (ID);
- and
- said packet router is configured to send packets, in a single action, to said VLAN having said VLAN ID such that the packets are subjected to an ordered sequence of a specific number of the out-of-box servers which process the packets to provide the out-of-box services.
A method for routing packets in a system comprising a packet router connected to a plurality of out-of-box servers, the servers being configured for performing out-of-box services, wherein the method comprises the steps of:
- configuring the out-of-box servers to form a virtual local area network (VLAN) identified by one VLAN identification (ID);
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- sending, by the router, packets, in a single action, to said VLAN having said VLAN ID such that the packets are subjected to an ordered sequence of a specific number of the out-of-box servers which process the packets to provide the out-of-box services.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.