Cloud Exchange SDN Provisioning for Secure Multi-Cloud Connectivity
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing cloud computing environments face challenges in establishing direct, secure, and cost-effective connections to cloud providers, including high latency, low throughput, security concerns, and inflexible private connections that require significant capital investment and contractual complexities.
Innovation Solution
A system comprising Cloud Points of Presence (PoPs) and Cloud Exchanges connected by high-performance fiber-optic cables, enabling virtual network devices for on-demand software-defined networks (SDNs) that facilitate quick, flexible, and secure connections to multiple cloud providers using network function virtualization (NFV) and artificial intelligence (AI) for automated configuration and management.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional private connections are established to cloud providers, then connection security and reliability are improved, but device complexity and capital investment requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces cloud exchanges as intermediary platforms that facilitate connections between customers and multiple cloud providers. These exchanges act as neutral mediators that simplify the connection establishment process while maintaining security and reliability, eliminating the need for complex direct private connections between each customer and each cloud provider.
Solution Approach 2:
The cloud exchange platform provides universal connectivity services that work across multiple cloud providers and customers. A single exchange infrastructure serves multiple functions: establishing connections, managing security protocols, routing traffic, and providing billing services, thereby reducing overall system complexity while maintaining high reliability.
2Reliability
If direct private connections are established to cloud providers, then connection security is improved, but ease of operation and flexibility deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
Cloud exchanges serve as secure intermediary platforms that maintain security protocols while simplifying operations. The exchange handles authentication, authorization, and security management centrally, allowing customers to easily establish and modify connections without compromising security, thereby improving both ease of operation and maintaining security.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables dynamic connection establishment and modification through the cloud exchange platform. Customers can quickly provision, modify, or terminate connections on-demand without lengthy contractual processes, making the system adaptable and flexible while maintaining security through centralized control.
3Productivity
If on-demand software-defined networks are implemented, then productivity and ease of operation are improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces traditional manual network configuration mechanisms with software-defined networking (SDN) controllers that automatically provision and manage network resources. The SDN controller uses software-based automation to handle network setup, configuration, and management tasks, dramatically improving provisioning speed while the underlying complexity is abstracted away from end users.
Solution Approach 2:
The cloud exchange platform enables self-service network provisioning where customers can automatically deploy and configure their own software-defined networks without manual intervention. The system provides automated resource allocation, configuration management, and billing services, improving productivity while the complexity is managed through automated self-service mechanisms.
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AI summary
A hosting system to facilitate connecting to multiple cloud providers may comprise a first cloud exchange; a second cloud exchange; one or more cloud point-of-presence (PoPs) communicatively coupled to the first and second cloud exchanges; a software-defined network (“SDN”) automation engine; a data collection layer; an artificial intelligence (AI) layer comprising one or more AI modeling engines configured to deploy one or more AI models; and a non-transitory computer readable medium comprising computer program instructions that when executed by a processor cause the system to generate a real-time conversational agent (a “chat-bot”), display the chat-bot on a user device, receive input comprising network specification parameters via the chat-bot, convert the input into one or more commands, generate a customized, on-demand SDN that complies with the network specification parameters, capture and model user data and network data, and automatically initiate one or more actions responsive to the modeling.