Patent ID: 11863453
Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC G  H

Claim 7:
8. A system associated with a data node of a cloud-delivered virtual private network (VPN) headend service, the data node configured to process data plane traffic flowing through the cloud-delivered VPN headend service, the system comprising:
one or more processors; and
one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the data node to perform operations comprising:
determining a predicted capacity of the data node during a period of time;
sending, to a load balancer of the cloud-delivered VPN headend service, an indication of the predicted capacity to cause the load balancer to send a first number of flows of the data plane traffic to the data node during the period of time;
determining, during the period of time, a difference between the predicted capacity of the data node and an actual capacity of the data node; and
based at least in part on the difference, causing the load balancer to send a second number of the flows of the data plane traffic to the data node during the period of time to reduce the difference.