At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p.

Shobhna Goyal

Satyendra S Tripathi

Paritosh Bajpay

Shiv Kumar

Anisa Parikh

Sekar Ganesan

Magda K Nassar

Ralph Utano

Neela R Atluri

Kaustubh Joshi

Marius Jonas Gudelis

Israel L Means

Praveen Ramadenu

Manikka Thyagarajan

Michael L Hammer

Ganeshkumar Natarajan

The concepts and technologies disclosed herein provide high availability and high utilization cloud data center architecture for supporting telecommunications services. According to one aspect of the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, a 4-site model of application placement within the cloud computing environment provides 37.5% resource utilization with site availability of five 9s (99.999%) and virtual machine availability of five 9s. According to another aspect of the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, a 3-site model of application placement within the cloud computing environment provides 66% resource utilization with site availability of five 9s and virtual machine availability of five 9s. According to another aspect of the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, a 4-site model of application placement within the cloud computing environment provides 75% resource utilization with site availability of five 9s and virtual machine availability of five 9s.

High availability and high utilization cloud data center architecture for supporting telecommunications services

Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to virtual zones for Open Systems Interconnection ('OSI') communication model layers 4-7 services in a cloud computing system. According to one aspect of the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, a cloud computing system can include a hardware resource and a virtual zone. The virtual zone can include a virtual network function ('VNF') that is executable by the hardware resource. The VNF can support a service that operates within one of layers 4-7 of the OSI communication model. A computing system can detect new subscribers to the service within the virtual zone. The computing system also can determine that a capacity constraint exists within the virtual zone as a result of the new subscribers. The computing system also can home the new subscribers to the further virtual zone so that the further VNF can provide the service to the new subscribers.

Virtual zones for open systems interconnection layer 4 through layer 7 services in a cloud computing system

According to one aspect disclosed herein, a service centric virtual network function architecture can be used for development and deployment of services in a cloud computing system. The cloud computing system can include a plurality of compute resources and a plurality of memory resources. A portion of the plurality of memory resources can include virtual machine monitor instructions. The virtual machine monitor instructions can be executed by a first portion of the plurality of compute resources to perform operations. In particular, the virtual machine monitor instructions can be executed by the first portion of the plurality of compute resources to instantiate a virtual network function to be executed by a second portion of the plurality of compute resources. The virtual network function can include at least a portion of a decomposition of a physical network function that supports at least a portion of a telecommunications service.

Service centric virtual network function architecture for development and deployment of open systems interconnection communication model layer 4 through layer 7 services in a cloud computing system

Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to a service compiler component and service controller for Open Systems Interconnection ('OSI') communication model layer 4 through layer 7 services in a cloud computing system. According to one aspect of the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, the service compiler component can receive compiler data associated with a new service. The service compiler component also can analyze the compiler data at least to determine at least one virtual network function ('VNF') to be used to instantiate the new service. The service compiler also can generate a template for the new service.

Service compiler component and service controller for open systems interconnection layer 4 through layer 7 services in a cloud computing system

According to one aspect of the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, a cloud computing system can include a hardware resource and a Network Platform as a Service ('NPaaS') layer. The NPaaS layer can expose a cloud service for use by a service that operates within at least one of layer 4 through layer 7 of the Open Systems Interconnection ('OSI') communication model. The cloud service can include a database service, an application container service, a resource broker service, a load balancer service, a domain name system (&#x201c;DNS&#x201d;) service, a state persistence service, a probe service, or a combination thereof. The NPaaS also can receive a request for the cloud service, and in response to the request, can provide the cloud service.

Network platform as a service layer for open systems interconnection communication model layer 4 through layer 7 services

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