Patent ID: 11949590
Assignee: JUNIPER NETWORKS, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 10:
11. A method comprising:
receiving, by a forwarding engine implementing a forwarding plane for a network device, first fragmented packet data for a first traffic flow of a plurality of traffic flows of fragmented packet data;
forwarding, by the forwarding engine, the first fragmented packet data to a core group, to which the first traffic flow is assigned, of a plurality of core groups of a service physical interface card (PIC) of the network device, wherein the service PIC comprises a plurality of cores, wherein the core group comprises at least a first core and a second core of the plurality of cores, and wherein traffic flows of the plurality of traffic flows of fragmented packet data are assigned to different core groups of the plurality of core groups;
assembling, by the first core, the first fragmented packet data for the first traffic flow into packets for the first traffic flow;
forwarding, by the first core and based on an identifier for the second core obtained from the first fragmented packet data, the packets for the first traffic flow to the second core; and
applying, by the second core, a network service to the packets for the first traffic flow.