Commissioning a virtualized network function

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 11425203
APP PUB NO 20200344305A1
SERIAL NO

16850874

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Certain aspects provide a method of commissioning a virtualized network function (VNF), including: at a commissioning virtual machine instantiated in a virtualized environment of a customer network, configuring a remote access connection facility for accessing the commissioning virtual machine remotely from outside of the customer network, wherein the commissioning virtual machine has access to a virtual infrastructure manager (VIM) component of the virtualized environment; causing, via the remote access connection facility, configuration of a VNF manager component within the commissioning virtual machine; and causing, via the remote access connection facility, the configured VNF manager component to instruct the VIM component to instantiate one or more virtual machines in the virtualized environment, the one or more virtual machines being operable to perform at least a part of the VNF.

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METASWITCH NETWORKS LTD100 CHURCH STREET MIDDLESEX ENFIELD EN2 6BQ

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Davies, Philip Enfield, GB 31 582
Duppre, Michael Enfield, GB 2 5
Hotham, David Enfield, GB 8 33
Lee, Andrew Enfield, GB 155 8193
Orbell, Steve Enfield, GB 2 5
Parsons, Jamie Enfield, GB 4 41
Powell, Joe Enfield, GB 10 135

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