Interconnection between enterprise network customers and network-based cloud service providers

• Main Authors: Mulligan, John T, Toll, Diana L, Quach, Bo S
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 25.08.2020
• Subjects: ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION

In a network service provider environment, a number of interconnection routing configuration templates provide a consistent approach for configuring associated interconnect network segments between enterprise network customer sites and cloud service providers. At least two types of configuration template are used to create at least two types of routing arrangement: a first template for creating an "unconstrained" routing arrangement having "any to any" connections; and a second template for creating a "partitioned" routing arrangement in which traffic between partitions must be operated on by a virtual network function. Additionally, the "partitioned" routing arrangement may use either a shared VPN or a segregated VPN facing the cloud service providers. The use of the interconnection routing configuration templates may be automated. The interconnection routing configuration templates can be applied in a recursive fashion to different parts of the end-to-end connectivity.