US 2017/0302534 A1 · Method and Apparatus for Managing Virtual Networks via Cloud Hosted Application

Abstract

An apparatus and method for providing a cloud hosted application able to manage virtual network (“VN”) is disclosed. In one embodiment, a process of managing VN using virtual machines (“VMs”) receives a message or request from a user requesting a new VN to be built. The request is sent from a dashboard to a network orchestrator via a communication network. The orchestrator is a VN manager able to facilitate building a VN based on users' input. In one aspect, the orchestrator provides a set of templates that represent VN devices or components to users for facilitating construction of VN. After configuring a VN, a cloud capable of hosting the network is selected. The network or VN is subsequently launched using at least a portion of computing resources allocated in the cloud.

Claims6

Dependent claims

A method for managing virtual network (“VN”), comprising:

monitoring system performance associated with a configured VN based on a plurality of first virtual machines (“VMs”) running in at a first cloud
issuing a scale-up request in accordance with the system performance;
identifying a separable virtual network device from the configured VN;
and
launching a second VM in a second cloud to enhance system performance associated with the configured VN.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

15/635,885Filed 28 Jun 2017

Priority

12 Sep 2014

Published

19 Oct 2017

Term ends

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Classification7 codes

H04L 41/0843
Configuration by using pre-existing information, e.g. using templates or copying from other elements: based on generic templates
H04L 12/4641
Interconnection of networks: virtual LANs, VLANs, e.g. virtual private networks [VPN]
H04L 41/0897
Bandwidth or capacity management, i.e. automatically increasing or decreasing capacities: by horizontal or vertical scaling of resources, or by…
H04L 41/122
Discovery or management of network topologies: of virtualised topologies, e.g. software-defined networks [SDN] or network function virtualisation…

Method and Apparatus for Managing Virtual Networks via Cloud Hosted Application

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