Dedicated Virtual Gateway Bandwidth Policing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing cloud service delivery models face challenges in managing and optimizing bandwidth usage across multiple virtual connections, leading to inefficiencies and increased complexity for customers.
Innovation Solution
The establishment of dedicated virtual gateways within cloud exchanges facilitates a unified method of managing bandwidth usage, allowing for dynamic balancing based on demand and simplifying network traffic management across multiple cloud service providers.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If customers manage bandwidth usage individually per service provider network, then bandwidth control is precise for each connection, but device complexity and management overhead increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple individual bandwidth management functions into a single aggregate virtual gateway that handles bandwidth policing for multiple service provider connections simultaneously. This consolidation reduces management complexity while maintaining effective bandwidth control through unified policies.
Solution Approach 2:
The virtual gateway is designed as a universal management point that can police bandwidth across multiple different service provider networks through a single interface. It provides multi-functional capability to handle diverse connection types and service providers through unified bandwidth management mechanisms.
2Adaptability or versatility
If dedicated virtual gateways are established for each customer in cloud exchanges, then bandwidth usage can be dynamically balanced based on demand, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The virtual gateway implements dynamic bandwidth allocation that automatically adjusts bandwidth distribution based on real-time traffic patterns and demand. The system can re-provision bandwidth limits dynamically without manual intervention, adapting to changing network conditions while maintaining service level agreements.
Solution Approach 2:
The virtual gateway serves as an intermediary layer between customers and multiple service provider networks. It mediates bandwidth management by implementing policing functions at a central point, simplifying the architecture compared to implementing complex control logic at each individual connection point.
3Ease of operation
If multiple virtual connections are managed through a unified gateway, then ease of operation improves, but the gateway must handle increased traffic volume and complexity
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the bandwidth management function from individual connection points and concentrates it at the virtual gateway. This extraction allows the gateway to police aggregate traffic from multiple connections simultaneously, providing single-point management while efficiently handling the combined traffic volume through centralized control mechanisms.
Data Source
AI summary
In an example, a system includes a first cloud exchange network for a first cloud exchange, the first cloud exchange network located within a first data center and configured with a first dedicated virtual gateway, the first dedicated virtual gateway configured to interface with a first virtual connector to a customer network, with a second virtual connector to a first cloud service provider (CSP) network, and with a third virtual connector to a second CSP network. Network traffic among the customer network, the first CSP network, and the second CSP network is routed through the first dedicated virtual gateway. The first dedicated virtual gateway dynamically polices the network traffic based on an aggregate bandwidth subscription configured in the first cloud exchange network that limits a total bandwidth that may be used over the first cloud exchange network between the customer network, the first CSP network, and the second CSP network.