CONNECTIVITY SERVICE ORCHESTRATOR

• US 20150081902A1
• Filed: 04/10/2013
• Published: 03/19/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/23/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: RPX Corporation
• Original Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Verchere, Dominique, Damm, Gerard
• Application Number:
  US14/388,861
• Publication Number:
  US 20150081902A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/225
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0895 Configuration of virtualised networks or elements, e.g. virtualised network function or OpenFlow elements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0896 Bandwidth or capacity management, i.e. automatically increasing or decreasing capacities flow or congestion control using dynamic resource allocation, e.g. in-call renegotiation, H04L47/76
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/40 using virtualisation of network functions or resources, e.g. SDN or NFV entities
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5051 Service on demand, e.g. definition and deployment of services in real time
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5054 Automatic deployment of services triggered by the service manager, e.g. service implementation by automatic configuration of network components
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5077 wherein the managed service relates to simple transport services, i.e. providing only network infrastructure
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/148 Migration or transfer of sessions

Abstract

Network service orchestrator Network service orchestrator operationally connected to a network management system, the network service orchestrator comprising a connectivity services database comprising information representing multiple connectivity services configured on a network managed by the network management system, the network service orchestrator further comprising input means for receiving service orders, processing means configured to process an orchestrator algorithm to select a set of connectivity services out of said multiple connectivity services based on said service orders, and a signal generator for generating and transmitting a signal to activate/deactivate the selected set of connectivity services on the network.

Claims

1. Network service orchestrator operationally connected to a network management system, the network service orchestrator comprising a connectivity services database comprising information representing multiple connectivity services configured on a network managed by the network management system, the network service orchestrator further comprising input means for receiving a service order, processing means configured to process an orchestrator algorithm to select a set of connectivity services out of said multiple connectivity services based on said service order, and a signal generator for generating and transmitting a signal to assign/deassign the selected set of connectivity services in the network to the service order.

2. Network service orchestrator according to claim 1, wherein the connectivity services comprise VPN tunnel configurations.

3. Network service orchestrator according to claim 1, wherein the connectivity services comprise VM configurations.

4. Network service orchestrator according to claim 1, wherein the signal comprises instructions to the network management system to assign/deassign the set of connectivity services to the service order.

5. Network service orchestrator according to claim 4, wherein the instructions to assign/deassign the set of connectivity services comprises at least a Quality of Service parameter.

6. Network service orchestrator according to claim 1, wherein the service order comprises at least an activation time interval and a service duration, and wherein the orchestrator algorithm is adapted for time-based scheduled selection of the set of connectivity services.

7. Network service orchestrator according to claim 1, further comprising updating means provided for updating the connectivity services database based on the signal generated by the signal generator.

8. Method for orchestrating connectivity services in a network, comprising the steps of:

Receiving at least one service order;

Selecting a set of connectivity services out of a database comprising information representing connectivity services configured on a network based on the at least one service order;

Generating a signal to assign/deassign the selected set of connectivity services in the network to the service order; and

Transmit the generated signal to a network management system managing the network.

9. Method according to claim 8, wherein the connectivity services comprise at least one of VPN tunnel configurations and VM configurations.

10. Method according to claim 8, wherein the service order comprises an activation time interval and a service duration, and whereby the step of selecting comprises time-based scheduled selection of said set.

11. Method according to claim 8, comprising the further step of updating the database based on the generated signal.