Patent ID: 11895024
Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 11:
12. The device of claim 11, wherein the acts further comprises:
including, at the second VNFC, the network address of the first VNFC or an identity of a third VNFC as a destination address in a further data-plane packet for the terminal device, the third VNFC separated from the first VNFC and including at least one second data-plane application;
forwarding the further data plane packet to the virtual switch;
in response to receipt of, at the virtual switch, the further data-plane packet, determining whether the destination address in the further data-plane packet is the network address of the first VNFC or the identity of the third VNFC;
in response to determining that the destination address in the further data-plane packet is the network address of the first VNFC, delivering the further data-plane packet to the first VNFC; and
in response to determining that the destination address in the further data-plane packet is the identity of the third VNFC, delivering the further data-plane packet to the third VNFC.