Ciena Corporation
Systems and methods for management of cloud exchanges

Abstract:

A cloud exchange includes a first connection to an enterprise; a first plurality of peering points each to an associated cloud provider of a plurality of cloud providers; a second connection to a Central office Re-architected as a Data Center (CORD) including a set of hardware and/or software from one or more existing data centers that is capable of routing traffic directly between the plurality of cloud providers, wherein the CORD comprises a second plurality of peering points to the plurality of cloud providers; and a cloud exchange management application executed on a computing system configured to cause movement of traffic data between the first plurality of peering points and the second plurality of peering points responsive to one or more of the traffic data trending between two applications in different cloud providers and latency between the two applications in different cloud providers.