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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 12, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 31, 2019
Equinix, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
Utpal Mukhopadhyaya, San Jose, CA (US);
Kaladhar Voruganti, San Jose, CA (US);
Sindhu Payankulath, Saratoga, CA (US);
EQUINIX, INC., Redwood City, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques described in this disclosure are directed to a co-location facility provider generating an inter-metropolitan area service chain for application of a plurality of services offered by cloud service providers located in geographically distributed metropolitan areas. In some examples, a method includes receiving, by a controller executing at a computing device of a co-location facilities provider, a request for a plurality of services to be applied to data of a customer; in response to receiving the request, generating, by the controller, a service chain for application of each of the plurality of services provided by a different one of a plurality of cloud service providers, wherein the services are applied by each of the plurality of cloud service providers at co-location facilities in geographically distributed metropolitan areas; and providing, by the controller and to the customer, the service chain for application of the plurality of services.