“Group-based policy is the notion of endpoint groups and the contracts between them, ” Ward said. “We invented service function chaining, which passes metadata and context from the forwarding path to be able to direct the application.”
Ward added that the combination of group-based policy and service function chaining effectively becomes the business policy for application deployment.
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