Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
A GATEWAY, A FRONTEND DEVICE, A METHOD AND A COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR PROVIDING CLOUD CONNECTIVITY TO A NETWORK OF COMMUNICATIVELY INTERCONNECTED NETWORK NODES

Abstract:

A gateway (1), arranged for providing cloud connectivity to a network of communicatively interconnected network nodes. The gateway (1) comprises a backend function (2)and a plurality of physical frontend devices (3), for deployment in the network. The frontend devices (3) communicatively connect(4)to the backend function (2) for exchanging messages between a network node and the backend function (2). The backend function (2) is common to the plurality of frontend devices (3) and arranged in a at least one server of a plurality of operatively connected servers, that may form part of the cloud, thereby providing for `cloud processing` or `virtual processing` of the messages for exchange thereof with the cloud. The physical frontend devices (3) may be designed to comprise transceiver functionality.