Ciena Corporation

Yuemin Li

Aung Htay

Mallikarjunappa Kore

A cloud exchange includes a first connection to an enterprise; a first plurality of peering points each to an associated cloud provider of a plurality of cloud providers; a second connection to a Central office Re-architected as a Data Center (CORD) including a set of hardware and/or software from one or more existing data centers that is capable of routing traffic directly between the plurality of cloud providers, wherein the CORD comprises a second plurality of peering points to the plurality of cloud providers; and a cloud exchange management application executed on a computing system configured to cause movement of traffic data between the first plurality of peering points and the second plurality of peering points responsive to one or more of the traffic data trending between two applications in different cloud providers and latency between the two applications in different cloud providers.

Systems and methods for management of cloud exchanges

A method involving receiving application monitoring data for a first application executing in a first cloud provider and a second application executing in a second cloud provider, wherein both the first and second cloud providers communication via a cloud exchange, performing traffic latency analytics using the received application monitoring data, determining, based on the traffic latency analytics, that a peering agreement between the first cloud provider and the cloud exchange should be moved to a Central office Re-architected as a Data Center (CORD), requesting a Path Computation Engine to find the CORD that meets a required set of criteria, establishing a private link between the CORD and the cloud exchange, moving the at least one peering agreement to be between the first cloud provider and the CORD, and forwarding at least a portion of the traffic originating from the first application in the first cloud provider directly via the CORD.

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Roswell, GA, United States of America

Yuemin Li