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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2023
Filed:
Dec. 31, 2020
Equinix, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
Juxiang Teng, Walnut Creek, CA (US);
Imam Sheikh, Redwood City, CA (US);
Muhammad Durrani, San Jose, CA (US);
EQUINIX, INC., Redwood City, CA (US);
Abstract
In general, this disclosure describes a cloud exchange (or 'cloud exchange') that offers a cloud-to-cloud interface (CCI) for interconnecting cloud services to tenants within public clouds. As described herein, the cloud exchange may be configured with a cloud-to-cloud interface that enables tenant applications of a public cloud to subscribe to and communicate with cloud services, using an end-to-end layer 3 path, in some cases without requiring a separate routing protocol session with a public edge device for the public cloud. In some examples, the public cloud provides a virtual layer 2 connection from a tenant within a public cloud to a routing instance of the cloud exchange, and the cloud exchange uses the routing instance to route service traffic between the tenant and the cloud services.