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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 15, 2016
Pureport, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);
Lee Cardona-Gonzalez, New Cumberland, PA (US);
Robert E. Pulley, Aptos, CA (US);
Patrick D. Riley, Ridgefield, CT (US);
Pureport, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);
Abstract
A hosting system to facilitate a customer of an operator of the system to connect to a cloud provider, the system including: a first cloud exchange co-located with and connected to first cloud provider equipment; a second cloud exchange co-located with and connected to second cloud provider equipment, wherein the first cloud provider equipment and the second cloud provider equipment are of a same cloud provider but at different geographically spaced locations or the first cloud provider equipment is of a different cloud provider than that of the second cloud provider equipment, and wherein the first cloud exchange is connected to the second cloud exchange; and a non-transitory computer readable medium including computer program instructions, the instructions configured to facilitate the configuration of a software-defined network including the first cloud exchange and/or second cloud exchange, wherein the network connects the customer to the first cloud provider equipment and/or the second cloud provider equipment.