Interconnection platform for real-time configuration and management of a cloud-based services exchange

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2025156156-A1
Application number	US-202519025880-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jan 16, 2025
Priority date	Oct 30, 2014
Publication date	May 15, 2025
Grant date	—

Abstract

In one example, a cloud-based services exchange comprises a plurality of interconnection assets configured to connect a customer of the cloud-based services exchange to one or more cloud service providers, the plurality of interconnection assets including a virtual circuit by which the customer accesses a cloud service from the one or more cloud service providers; and an orchestration engine configured to modify the plurality of interconnection assets.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A system comprising:
one or more network devices; one or more computing devices configured to execute an interconnection platform, the interconnection platform configured to: implement one or more application programming interfaces (APIs) configured to receive a request for network connectivity between a first network and a second network, wherein the second network is associated with a cloud service provider that provides a cloud service; based on the request:
determine a port for the first network is valid for the request; and
configure, based on the request and the determination the port for the first network is valid for the request, the one or more network devices with a virtual private network (VPN) that provides the network connectivity between the first network and the second network.

Assignees

• Equinix Inc

Inventors

• Kumar Parveen
• Maheshwari Gagan
• Jeyapaul Jaganathan
• Lillie Brian J

Classifications

• H04L67/10

  in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network (software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46) · CPC title

• H04L41/20

  Network management software packages · CPC title

• H04L41/0803

  Configuration setting · CPC title

• H04L67/1097 Primary

  for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS] · CPC title

• H04L47/70

  Admission control; Resource allocation · CPC title