METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROCESSING, AT A NETWORK EQUIPMENT, A PROCESSING REQUEST FROM A TERMINAL

Network equipment for processing a processing request from a terminal (106) configured to be connected to a network (105) to which the network equipment (100) can be connected, wherein it comprises: - a receiver (210) configured to receive, from the terminal (106), a message part of the processing request; - a relay agent (221) configured to provide a network identification information into the received message; - a load balancer (222) configured to forward the received message to one of a plurality of processing units (224) of the network equipment (100), depending on workload information associated with said processing units (224); and wherein said processing units (224) are further configured to retrieve, based on the network identification information extracted from the received message, context information from a database unit (225) shared between the processing units (224) and to process the received message according to a state of the processing request, the processing request state being retrieved from the context information.