Patent US10530632

Inter-metro service chaining
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US10530632

1. A method comprising: (6) (3)

receiving, by a controller executing at a computing device of a co-location facilities provider, a request for a plurality of services to be applied to data of a customer of the co-location facilities provider;

in response to receiving the request, generating, by the controller, a service chain for application of each of the plurality of services provided by a different one of a plurality of cloud service providers, wherein the services are applied by each of the plurality of cloud service providers at co-location facilities of the co-location facilities provider in a plurality of geographically distributed metropolitan areas; and

providing, by the controller and to the customer, the service chain for application of the plurality of services.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the co-location facilities provider establishes one or more interconnections between the plurality of cloud service providers. (1) (0)

4. The method of claim 1, wherein generating the service chain comprises: (0) (1)

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising: (0) (2)

6. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the request for the plurality of services comprises: (1) (1)

8. The method of claim 1, wherein generating the service chain comprises: (1) (2)

generating a label stack that maps the request for the plurality of services to the plurality of cloud service providers; and

appending the label stack to a data packet from the customer.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein generating the label stack comprises: (0) (4)

allocating a plurality of unique labels identifying the plurality of cloud service providers;

allocating a plurality of unique labels identifying a plurality of co-location facilities of the co-location facility provider;

allocating a plurality of unique labels identifying a plurality of connections between the plurality of co-location facilities and the plurality of cloud service providers; and

allocating one or more unique labels identifying one or more interconnections coupling the plurality of co-location facilities.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein providing the service chain comprises programming a cloud exchange point at one or more of the co-location facilities to apply the service chain. (0)

11. A computing device comprising: (6) (2)

at least one computer processor; and

a memory comprising instructions that when executed by the at least one computer processor cause the at least one computer processor to: receive a request for a plurality of services to be applied to data of a customer of a co-location facilities provider;

in response to receiving the request, generate a service chain for application of each of the plurality of services provided by a different one of a plurality of cloud service providers, wherein the services are applied by each of the plurality of cloud service providers at co-location facilities of the co-location facilities provider in a plurality of geographically distributed metropolitan areas; and

provide the service chain to the customer for application of the plurality of services.

12. The computing device of claim 11, wherein the co-location facilities provider establishes one or more interconnections between the plurality of cloud service providers. (1) (0)

14. The computing device of claim 11, wherein, to generate the service chain, the memory further comprising instructions that when executed by the at least one computer processors cause the at least one computer processors to: (0) (1)

15. The computing device of claim 11, the memory further comprising instructions that when executed by the at least one computer processor cause the at least one computer processor to: (0) (2)

16. The computing device of claim 11, wherein the request comprises a service template indicating the plurality of services requested by a customer. (1) (0)

18. The computing device of claim 11, the memory further comprising instructions that when executed by the at least one computer processor cause the at least one computer processor to: (1) (2)

generate a label stack that maps the request for the plurality of services to the plurality of cloud service providers; and

append the label stack to a data packet from a customer.

19. The computing device of claim 18, the memory further comprising instructions that when executed by the at least one computer processor cause the at least one computer processor to: (0) (4)

allocate a plurality of unique labels identifying the plurality of cloud service providers;

allocate a plurality of unique labels identifying a plurality of co-location facilities of the co-location facility provider;

allocate a plurality of unique labels identifying a plurality of connections between the plurality of co-location facilities and the plurality of cloud service providers; and

allocate one or more unique labels identifying one or more interconnections coupling the plurality of co-location facilities.

20. The computing device of claim 11, wherein, to provide the service chain, the memory further comprising instructions that when executed by the at least one computer processors cause the at least one computer processors to: (0) (1)

21. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium encoded with instructions that, when executed, cause at least one processor of a computing device of a co-location facility provider to: (0) (3)

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