Patent ID: 11949590
Assignee: JUNIPER NETWORKS, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A network device comprising:
processing circuitry configured to execute a forwarding engine implementing a forwarding plane for the network device; and
a service physical interface card (PIC) of the network device, wherein the service PIC comprises a plurality of cores,
wherein the forwarding engine is configured to:
receive first fragmented packet data for a first traffic flow of a plurality of traffic flows of fragmented packet data; and
forward the first fragmented packet data to a core group, to which the first traffic flow is assigned, of a plurality of core groups of the service PIC, wherein the core group comprises at least a first core and a second core of the plurality of cores, and wherein traffic flows of the plurality of traffic flows of fragmented packet data are assigned to different core groups of the plurality of core groups,

wherein the first core is configured to:
assemble the first fragmented packet data for the first traffic flow into packets for the first traffic flow; and
forward, based on an identifier for the second core obtained from the first fragmented packet data, the packets for the first traffic flow to the second core, and

wherein the second core is configured to apply a network service to the packets for the first traffic flow.