CPC H04L 45/38 (2013.01) [H04L 7/0041 (2013.01); H04L 12/4633 (2013.01); H04L 12/4641 (2013.01); H04L 45/02 (2013.01); H04L 45/586 (2013.01); H04L 45/64 (2013.01); H04L 45/745 (2013.01); H04L 67/562 (2022.05); H04L 69/22 (2013.01)] | 14 Claims |
1. A network packet broker comprising:
one or more controllers configured to acquire information on a plurality of OpenFlow edge switches being connected to a plurality of legacy networks as a wireless access network or a wired access network and belonging to a switch group, the one or more controllers directing one or more operations including:
generating routing information of a packet input to any one switch of the switch group, wherein the switch group includes one or more switches considered as a virtual router; and
controlling manipulation and flow of a packet in response to a request through the one or more controllers, by:
mapping a plurality of network devices connected to the plurality of OpenFlow edge switches for generating legacy routing information of a flow processing query message of the one or more controllers based on information on the virtual router to information of an external network connected directly to the virtual router; and
associating a GTP-C packet and a GTP-U packet of a flow packet to be transmitted to the same egress port, and extracting, modifying, removing, or inserting a GTP header or a VxLAN header of a flow packet.
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