A method and apparatus for generating virtualized network equipment

Abstract

This application provides a method and device for generating a virtualized network device. The technical solution is: collect all hardware resource information interconnected through the switching plane; allocate the control plane, service plane, and access plane according to the requirements and the collected hardware resource information Hardware resources and corresponding functional software are issued, so that the control plane, service plane, and access plane exchange messages through the switching plane to form a virtualized network device. The application can realize the unlimited and smooth expansion of the performance of the virtualized network equipment system, the high-density access of large-capacity ports, and the unrestricted depth of service processing.

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technical field [0001] The present application relates to the technical field of network communication, in particular to a method and device for virtualizing network equipment. Background technique [0002] The router (Router) in the network can establish a flexible connection in a multi-network interconnection environment, connect various subnets with completely different data packets and media access methods, and accept information from the source station or other routers. It belongs to a part of the network layer. connected devices. Since its development in the 1980s, the router system architecture has experienced a development process from centralized to distributed. Traditional low-end routers are generally centralized architectures, and high-end routers are generally distributed forwarding and switching architecture models. [0003] With the rapid growth of Internet traffic and the emergence of emerging applications, routers with higher capacity and more scalability a...

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Problems solved by technology

However, if the FPGA / ASIC solution is developed by itself, the investment cost is often very high and the progress is slow

At the same time, the service engine based on the ASIC / FPGA / NP solution can generally only process to the network layer, and the L4-L7 service processing capability is very limited

Since all the processing of a single line card is completed in the line card, the space limitation of the line card leads to the limitation of the capacity and port density of the line card.

The scalability of the overall machine capacity is limited by the ASIC chip specifications of the switching network

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