Patent ID: 11909558
Assignee: VMWARE LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method for performing services for a logical first network, the method comprising:
deploying a north first set of one or more routers and a south second set of one or more routers as two sets of gateway devices between the logical first network and a second network;
deploying a set of services between the two sets of routers in order to perform at least one service on data messages passing through the two sets of routers as the data messages enter or exit the logical network; and
defining a logical switch to connect to the first and second sets of routers, and to the set of services, said logical switch forwarding data messages received from one set of routers to one or more services and forwarding data messages received from the one or more services to the other set of routers after the one or more services have performed their operations.