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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2023
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2021
Equinix, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
Vadim Shmatko, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ankur Sharma, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Xin Wang, Milpitas, CA (US);
Anirvan Das, Fremont, CA (US);
EQUINIX, INC., Redwood City, CA (US);
Abstract
This disclosure describes techniques for providing customer isolation of time synchronization traffic using virtualization. For example, a method includes receiving, by a computing device, an Internet protocol (IP) address of a customer network of a plurality of customer networks connected to a cloud exchange executed by the computing device; configuring, by the computing device, a time synchronization server connected to the cloud exchange with a Virtualized Local Area Network (VLAN) associated with the IP address of the customer network, the time synchronization server comprising a plurality of instances that provide a time synchronization service; and configuring, by the computing device, the time synchronization server with a Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF) or network namespace for the VLAN, wherein the VRF or network namespace includes a route to send time synchronization traffic between the customer network and a particular instance of the plurality of instances that provide the time synchronization service.