SCALABLE SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENT (SLA) VERIFICATION AND ACTION USING A DATA PLANE

• Main Authors: Nainar, Nagendra Kumar, Pignataro, Carlos M, Clarke, Joseph M
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 16.07.2020
• Subjects: ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION

An ingress node inserts into a header of a packet service level agreement information and forwards the packet. At an egress node of the network, the packet is received and the service level agreement information is obtained from the header of the packet. The egress node verifies whether there is con...