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

Claim 2:
3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
in response to a failure of the second VNFC or a determination that traffic throughput of the second VNFC exceeds a threshold throughput, establishing, by a control-plane VNFC, a logical connection between the terminal device and a fourth VNFC, the control-plane VNFC comprising at least one control-plane application, the fourth VNFC separated from the first VNFC and including the at least one first data-plane application;
configuring, by the control-plane VNFC, the virtual switch with a second mapping, the second mapping being between the identity of the terminal device and an identity of the fourth VNFC; and
delivering the packet from the virtual switch to the fourth VNFC based on the second mapping.