Patent ID: 11943110
Assignee: CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING, LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 9:
10. A computing system comprising:
one or more processor devices of one or more computing devices, the one or more processor devices configured to:
receive configuration information that identifies a plurality of components that define a network;
cause, based on the configuration information, a plurality of virtual network function (VNF) instances to be generated on a plurality of general-purpose computing devices to implement the network on the plurality of general-purpose computing devices, each VNF instance corresponding to one of the plurality of components, wherein the plurality of VNF instances include a router VNF instance;
configure, based on the configuration information, at least some of the VNF instances of the plurality of VNF instances, including configuring the router VNF instance to utilize a first interface of a plurality of interfaces of a physical switch for inbound traffic and configuring the router VNF instance to utilize a second interface of the plurality of interfaces of the physical switch for outbound traffic;
obtain testing data and testing criteria;
submit the testing data to the network; and output network test results based on the testing data and the testing criteria.