Patent ID: 11870641
Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 7:
8. An apparatus comprising:
a network interface unit operative to be communicate a service provider network and attach at an edge of a forwarding plane; and
a processor coupled to the network interface unit and configured to perform:
maintaining one or more mappings between network traffic policies of the forwarding plane to network slices provisioned on a data plane of the service provider network;
maintaining one or more mappings between identifiers associated with user endpoints and the network traffic policies;
receiving network traffic from the forwarding plane, wherein the network traffic is destined to a first user endpoint and associated with a first network traffic policy;
configuring the network traffic for forwarding over a first network slice provisioned on the data plane of the service provider network to the first user endpoint, wherein the first network slice corresponds to the first network traffic policy in the one or more mappings between network traffic policies of the forwarding plane to network slices provisioned on a data plane of the service provider network; and
forwarding the network traffic to the data plane of the service provider network.