CLOUD NETWORK HAVING MULTIPLE PROTOCOLS USING VIRTUALIZATION OVERLAYS ACROSS PHYSICAL AND VIRTUALIZED WORKLOADS

    公开(公告)号:US20200213227A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-07-02

    申请号:US16232656

    申请日:2018-12-26

    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for configuring multiple network devices implementing different protocols or techniques. For example, these techniques allow network devices configured with different protocols to co-exist within the same network, or for the network to seamlessly evolve from one protocol to the other. Techniques described herein provide for an SDN controller that may bridge a network system implementing different protocols, e.g., Open vSwitch Database (OVSDB) and Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN), by translating high-level configuration data (e.g., desired state of the network at a high level of abstraction) that are protocol agnostic to low-level configuration data (e.g., desired state of the network at a low level of abstraction) that are protocol specific. That is, SDN controller may provide management, control, and analytics functions of a virtualized network configured to operate specifically within an OVSDB environment and/or an EVPN environment.

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