Patent ID: 11923963
Assignee: JUNIPER NETWORKS, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  Y | IPC H

Claim 8:
9. The system of any of claims 6-8, wherein the port extension service comprises a port extension service virtual network function VNF executing on the aggregation network device, wherein a set of VNFs in addition to the port extension service VNF are provisioned in the aggregation network device, and wherein the aggregation network device is configured to:
receive the packet from the source satellite network device;
remove, using the port extension service, an outer tunnel header from the packet;
determine, using the port extension service and based on an inner header of the packet, that the packet is bound for the WAN; and
in response to determining the packet is bound for the WAN:
process the packet using the port extension service VNF and the set of VNFs to produce a processed packet; and
forward the processed packet to the WAN through a WAN uplink port of the aggregation network device.