Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Virtual network inter-container communication
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Application No.: US15228471Application Date: 2016-08-04
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Publication No.: US10313178B2Publication Date: 2019-06-04
- Inventor: Parveen Kumar , Venkatachalam Rangasamy , Jaganathan Jeyapaul , Brian J. Lillie
- Applicant: Equinix, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Redwood City
- Assignee: Equinix, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Equinix, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Redwood City
- Agency: Shumaker & Sieffert, P.A.
- Main IPC: H04L12/24
- IPC: H04L12/24 ; H04L29/08 ; H04L12/755 ; H04L29/14 ; H04L12/46 ; H04L29/12 ; H04L12/26

Abstract:
Techniques are disclosed for facilitating inter-container communications, via a cloud exchange, for containers executing at logically isolated networks. In one example, the techniques of the disclosure provide a method including sending, by a container to a cloud exchange via an application programming interface exposed by an interconnection platform of the cloud exchange, container registration data for the container, the container registration data including a network address for a host that executes the container and a container identifier for the container.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170214550A1 VIRTUAL NETWORK FOR CONTAINERS Public/Granted day:2017-07-27
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