CPC G06F 11/3409 (2013.01) [G06F 8/61 (2013.01); G06F 8/71 (2013.01); G06F 11/3006 (2013.01); G06F 11/3664 (2013.01); G06F 11/3684 (2013.01); H04L 41/16 (2013.01); H04L 43/08 (2013.01); H04L 67/1031 (2013.01); G06F 2209/508 (2013.01); H04W 24/04 (2013.01)] | 17 Claims |
1. A method of dynamically allocating cellular network functions to a variety of different data centers, comprising:
receiving a plurality of performance data of at least two data centers as data is being transmitted on a cellular network that includes at least two of the following three data centers: an edge data center, a regional data center, and a national data center;
storing the performance data;
determining, based on the performance data, resources being used by each of the at least two data centers;
determining, based on the performance data, resources available for the future in at least one of the edge data center, regional data center, or national data center;
determining a selected data center suitable to run a selected network function based on the performance data; and
instantiating the selected network function at the selected data center, wherein instantiating the selected network function includes:
building an executable program of the selected network function from a source code included in a code repository;
running a plurality of tests against the executable program; and
delivering the executable program to the selected data center after the tests are run against the executable program.
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