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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 15, 2019
Equinix, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
Pragnesh Shashikant Panchal, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Paul R. Mason, San Jose, CA (US);
William Breakell Long, Louisville, CO (US);
EQUINIX, INC., Redwood City, CA (US);
Abstract
In general, this disclosure describes a virtual router configured to enable multi-cloud service provider connectivity. The multi-cloud service provider connectivity may enable network function virtualization (NFV) services to be applied to network traffic such as enterprise traffic. The NFV services may be offsite, cloud-based NFV services or data center provider-hosted NFV services, for example. In one example, a system comprises at least one computing device deployed to a data center by a data center provider and configured by the data center provider to execute a virtual router, wherein the virtual router is configurable by a customer to route packet flows to one or more servers that host network function virtualization services for application of the network function virtualization services to the packet flows.