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Physical to virtual network transport function abstraction

  • US 9,864,623 B2
  • Filed: 11/03/2014
  • Issued: 01/09/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/21/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method, comprising:

  • sending, with a virtual machine (“

    VM”

    ) manager, first information to a virtual infrastructure manager (“

    VIM”

    );

    sending, with the VIM, second information to one of a virtualized application manager or an orchestrator;

    sending, with the one of the virtualized application manager or the orchestrator, third information to a virtualized application running in a virtual machine or container; and

    based on the second information, determining, with one of the virtualized application manager or the orchestrator, whether connectivity to the virtualized application is failing;

    based on the determination that connectivity to the virtualized application is failing, performing, with one of the virtualized application manager or the orchestrator, at least one of notifying the virtual infrastructure manager or a host that connectivity to the virtualized application is failing or determining a course of action, wherein the course of action comprises at least one of fixing a connectivity issue, instructing the virtualized application to suspend operation until the connectivity issue is fixed, or passing the connectivity issue through to the virtualized application;

    wherein at least one of the first, second, or third information comprises one or more of loss of signal (“

    LOS”

    ) notifications, carrier group alarm (“

    CGA”

    ) notifications, jabber, fragmented frames, functionality information, information on test frames, or information on synthetic frames, wherein the at least one of the first, second, or third information further comprises one or more of alarm indication signal (“

    AIS”

    ) notifications, flow level statistics, label-switched path (“

    LSP”

    ) tunnel status information, switch monitoring (“

    SMON”

    ) counters, remote network monitoring (“

    RMON”

    ), maintenance entity information, ping information, trace router information, loopback information, or information on connectivity, and wherein the flow level statistics comprise statistics related to one or more of utilization, discarded frames, or capacity.

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