公开(公告)号：US10771252B1

公开(公告)日：2020-09-08

申请号：US16006458

申请日：2018-06-12

Applicant: Equinix, Inc.

Inventor： Juxiang Teng ,  Muhammad Durrani ,  Imam Sheikh ,  Lance Weaver ,  Brian J. Lillie

IPC: H04L9/32 ,  H04L9/08 ,  H04L9/14 ,  G06F21/60

Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques for securely, efficiently, and/or effectively providing cryptographic operations and key management services. Systems in accordance with one or more aspects of the present disclosure may provide secure management of cryptographic keys as service to a plurality of data center users or customers that contract for services provided by a data center. In one example, this disclosure describes a data center comprising a plurality of cloud service provider ports, a plurality of customer ports, network infrastructure coupling the plurality of cloud service provider ports to the plurality of customer ports, and a computing system including at least one hardware security module.

公开(公告)号：US11115142B1

公开(公告)日：2021-09-07

申请号：US16438310

申请日：2019-06-11

Applicant: Equinix, Inc.

Inventor： Anand Ozarkar ,  Ankur Sharma ,  Christopher Alan Anderson ,  Danjue Li ,  Lance Weaver ,  Brian J. Lillie

IPC: H04J3/06 ,  G06F1/12

Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques for delivering high-accuracy and high-precision clock synchronization in heterogeneous distributed computer clusters. For example, the disclosure describes a synchronization engine that sets efficient clock synchronization processes based on a cluster node's characteristics, pricing, precision, geolocation, and/or cluster topology, while in some cases using a combination of master clock data with internal atomic clocks of computers. The techniques described herein integrate the synchronization engine into a time synchronization process that may provide stability, versatility, precision and cost balance using technical improvements for characterizing timing system delivery channels.