Automatic configuration of external services based upon network activity
AssigneeCisco Technology, Inc.
InventorsEric A. VOIT, Richard M. PRUSS, John E. MCDOWALL
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Abstract
System, computer program product, and method to configure an external network based on internal network conditions, by monitoring a load attribute of one or more network flows traversing an ingress port of at least one network element in a software-defined networking (SDN) enabled network, upon determining that the load attribute of a first network element in the SDN enabled network exceeds a predefined threshold, provisioning, by the application, an additional service on the external network, by the application, an additional service on the external network, and extending, by the application, the SDN enabled network to include the additional service on the external network.
Claims27
A computer-implemented method to configure an external network based on internal network conditions, comprising:
- monitoring, a load attribute of one or more network flows traversing an ingress port of at least one network element in a software-defined networking (SDN) enabled network;
- upon determining that the load attribute of a first network element in the SDN enabled network exceeds a predefined threshold, issuing, by the first network element, a high load notification to an application;
- provisioning, by the application, an additional service on the external network;
- and
- extending, by the application, the SDN enabled network to include the additional service on the external network.
A system, comprising:
- one or more computer processors;
- and
- a memory containing a program, which when executed by the one or more computer processors, performs an operation to configure an external network based on internal network conditions, the operation comprising:
- monitoring, a load attribute of one or more network flows traversing an ingress port of at least one network element in a software-defined networking (SDN) enabled network;
- upon determining that the load attribute of a first network element in the SDN enabled network exceeds a predefined threshold, issuing, by the first network element, a high load notification to an application;
- provisioning, by the application, an additional service on the external network;
- and
- extending, by the application, the SDN enabled network to include the additional service on the external network.
A computer program product to configure external networks based on internal network conditions, comprising:
- a computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable program code embedded therewith, the computer-readable program code comprising:
- computer-readable program code configured to monitor a load attribute of one or more network flows traversing an ingress port of at least one network element in a software-defined networking (SDN) enabled network;
- computer-readable program code configured to, upon determining that the load attribute of a first network element in the SDN enabled network exceeds a predefined threshold, issue, by the first network element, a high load notification to an application;
- computer-readable program code configured to provision, by the application, an additional service on the external network;
- and
- computer-readable program code configured to extend, by the application, the SDN enabled network to include the additional service on the external network.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.