Carrier grade content router
First Claim
Patent Images
1. A carrier grade router for use in a content routed network, comprising:
- a management plane for housing externally visible management applications, and coordinating and relaying external management requests to appropriate underlying application code in the router;
a distinct control plane for running control protocols required within said mark-up language routed network; and
a distinct data plane for receiving and forwarding customer data.
5 Assignments
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
A carrier grade content router, includes a distinct management plane for housing externally visible management applications, and coordinating and relaying external management requests to appropriate underlying application code in the router; a distinct control plane for running control protocols required within an XML routed network; and a distinct data plane for receiving and forwarding customer data. Some functions can be implemented in software or via a hardware accelerator.
31 Citations
21 Claims
-
1. A carrier grade router for use in a content routed network, comprising:
-
a management plane for housing externally visible management applications, and coordinating and relaying external management requests to appropriate underlying application code in the router;
a distinct control plane for running control protocols required within said mark-up language routed network; and
a distinct data plane for receiving and forwarding customer data. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
-
-
16. A method of managing a carrier grade content router in a content based network, comprising:
-
providing distinct management, control, and data planes;
coordinating and relaying external management requests to appropriate underlying application code in the router in said management plane, said management plane housing externally visible management applications;
running control protocols required within a mark-up language routed network in said control plane; and
receiving and forwarding customer data in said data plane. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18)
-
-
19. A computer program product for managing a carrier grade content router in a content based network, comprising:
-
computer code for providing distinct management, control, and data planes within said router;
computer code for coordinating and relaying external management requests to appropriate underlying application code in the router in said management plane, said management plane housing externally visible management applications;
computer code for running control protocols required within a content routed network in said control plane; and
computer code for receiving and forwarding customer data in said data plane. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21)
-
Specification