Patent ID: 11943146
Assignee: VMWARE LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 12:
13. A non-transitory machine readable medium storing a program for a particular edge node of a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) that handles (i) traffic for a 5G network and (ii) traffic outside of the 5G network, the SD-WAN established by a set of edge nodes and a set of gateways, the program comprising sets of instructions for:
identifying whether a received data message is a 5G message that includes a tunnel header of a particular type associated with the 5G network;
when the data message is a 5G message, examining a set of header fields within the tunnel header to identify a specified traffic priority applicable to the 5G message; and
applying the identified traffic priority within the SD-WAN.