Patent ID: 11949560
Assignee: JUNIPER NETWORKS, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 6:
7. A network device, comprising:
one or more memories; and
one or more processors to:
receive a border gateway protocol (BGP) flow specification route associated with creation of an overlay network slice in a network,
wherein the BGP flow specification route includes data identifying rate limiting flows in the overlay network slice, redirect flows in the overlay network slice, and drop flows in the overlay network slice;

create a new routing instance based on the BGP flow specification route;
associate interfaces defined by the BGP flow specification route with virtual private network (VPN) members;
assign, when the BGP flow specification route identifies VPN parameters, the VPN parameters based on the BGP flow specification route;
generate, when the BGP flow specification route does not identify the VPN parameters, the VPN parameters;
advertise the VPN parameters within the network to cause the network to generate the overlay network slice; and
utilize the overlay network slice generated based on advertising the VPN parameters.