Network Service Bus for Cloud Exchange Event Notification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing cloud exchange platforms lack efficient mechanisms for real-time network event notification and re-routing across heterogeneous network assets, leading to potential service disruptions and increased complexity in managing interconnections between cloud service providers and customers.
Innovation Solution
A network service bus is introduced to publish and deliver network event messages to subscribed customer systems, enabling real-time notification of events such as device failures or bandwidth thresholds, and providing re-routing information to ensure seamless service continuity.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a cloud exchange platform manages interconnections among multiple cloud service providers and customers, then the service coverage and interconnection capability are improved, but the system complexity and difficulty of managing heterogeneous network assets increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a network service bus as an intermediary component that mediates between heterogeneous network assets and customer systems. This bus provides a standardized interface for event notification and re-routing information, eliminating the need for direct complex interactions between diverse network assets and multiple customers, thus resolving the technical contradiction between improved interconnection capability and increased system complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the cloud exchange platform into distinct functional modules: network event units for different network assets, a central network service bus for event distribution, and customer systems for service consumption. This modular segmentation allows each component to operate independently with well-defined interfaces, managing complexity while maintaining versatile interconnection capabilities
2Speed
If real-time network event notification is implemented across heterogeneous network assets, then the responsiveness to network events is improved, but the infrastructure complexity and management overhead increase
Solution Approach 1:
The network service bus is designed as a universal, multi-functional component that handles event notification, re-routing information distribution, and subscriber management for all types of network assets (optical circuits, Ethernet circuits, wireless circuits, etc.). This universal approach enables real-time responsiveness across heterogeneous assets without requiring separate complex infrastructure for each asset type
Solution Approach 2:
The network service bus acts as a mediator between diverse network event sources and multiple subscriber systems, providing a standardized event notification mechanism. This intermediary layer abstracts the complexity of heterogeneous network assets, enabling real-time event distribution through a single, manageable infrastructure component
3Reliability
If automated re-routing processes are implemented for network events, then the service continuity is improved, but the system automation complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by pre-configuring re-routing information and alternate paths in the network service bus before network events occur. When events happen, the system can immediately execute pre-planned re-routing actions, ensuring service continuity without complex real-time decision-making algorithms, thus achieving reliability with manageable automation complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where network event units monitor network asset status, notify the network service bus of events, and receive confirmation of re-routing actions. This closed-loop feedback enables automated service continuity while maintaining manageable complexity through structured information flow and validation
Data Source
AI summary
In one example, a cloud exchange comprises an interconnection platform of a network data center to configure a plurality of interconnection assets of the network data center to interconnect customer networks of a plurality of customer networks co-located in the network data center, the interconnection platform comprising: a network event unit controller configured to receive an indication of a network event of an interconnection asset of the plurality of interconnection assets; generate, in response to the network device report message, one or more network event messages based on the network event, wherein each of the network event messages includes an indication of the network event; and send the one or more network event messages to one or more customer systems for respective customer networks of the plurality of customer networks, wherein the one or more customer systems are affected by the network event.