Abstract: Techniques described in this disclosure are directed to a co-location facility provider generating an inter-metropolitan area service chain for application of a plurality of services offered by cloud service providers located in geographically distributed metropolitan areas. In some examples, a method includes receiving, by a controller executing at a computing device of a co-location facilities provider, a request for a plurality of services to be applied to data of a customer; in response to receiving the request, generating, by the controller, a service chain for application of each of the plurality of services provided by a different one of a plurality of cloud service providers, wherein the services are applied by each of the plurality of cloud service providers at co-location facilities in geographically distributed metropolitan areas; and providing, by the controller and to the customer, the service chain for application of the plurality of services.

Abstract: In some examples, a computing device comprises at least one computer processor; and a memory comprising instructions that when executed by the at least one computer processor cause the at least one computer processor to: receive feature usage data indicating respective usages of a plurality of network device features configured for the network device; receive resource utilization data indicating resource utilization of the network device resource by each of the network device features at different usages; determine, based on the features usage data and the resource utilization data, respective resource utilizations of the network device resource by the plurality of network device features; combine the respective resource utilizations of the network device resource to determine a total network device resource utilization for the network device resource; and output an indication of the total network device resource utilization for the network device resource.

Abstract: In some examples, a method includes identifying, by a service overlay model engine executing at a computing device of a co-location facility provider, a plurality of service providers offering a service, the plurality of service providers co-located at one or more co-location facilities of the co-location facility provider; obtaining, by the service overlay model engine, first data obtained from the plurality of service providers describing the service; generating, by the service overlay model engine, second data describing the service based on one or more attributes of the service as delivered by the plurality of service providers and determined for the one or more co-location facilities by the co-location facility provider; and outputting, by the service overlay model engine and for display to a display device, based on a request for the service by a co-location facility customer, information based on the first data and the second data.

Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for evaluating and facilitating high availability for network connection services provided by network infrastructure of one or more co-location facilities. For example, a computing system receives data from each network device in one or more co-location facilities, the data indicating the respective capability of each network feature of each network device to provide highly available operation across a plurality of communication model layers for supporting a network connection service to customer networks co-located within the one or more co-location facilities. The computing system applies high availability evaluation metrics to the data to determine a high availability capability score for each network device feature of each network device. Further, the computing system determines, based on the high availability capability scores, an indication of the high availability for the network connection service.

Abstract: Techniques described in this disclosure are directed to a co-location facility provider generating an inter-metropolitan area service chain for application of a plurality of services offered by cloud service providers located in geographically distributed metropolitan areas. In some examples, a method includes receiving, by a controller executing at a computing device of a co-location facilities provider, a request for a plurality of services to be applied to data of a customer; in response to receiving the request, generating, by the controller, a service chain for application of each of the plurality of services provided by a different one of a plurality of cloud service providers, wherein the services are applied by each of the plurality of cloud service providers at co-location facilities in geographically distributed metropolitan areas; and providing, by the controller and to the customer, the service chain for application of the plurality of services.

Abstract: In some examples, a method includes identifying, by a service overlay model engine executing at a computing device of a co-location facility provider, a plurality of service providers offering a service, the plurality of service providers co-located at one or more co-location facilities of the co-location facility provider; obtaining, by the service overlay model engine, first data obtained from the plurality of service providers describing the service; generating, by the service overlay model engine, second data describing the service based on one or more attributes of the service as delivered by the plurality of service providers and determined for the one or more co-location facilities by the co-location facility provider; and outputting, by the service overlay model engine and for display to a display device, based on a request for the service by a co-location facility customer, information based on the first data and the second data.

Abstract: Techniques for transforming a legacy network into a Software Defined Networking (SDN) enabled network are provided. In one embodiment, a route server can receive one or more routing protocol packets originating from a network device, where the one or more routing protocol packets are forwarded to the route server via a cross connect configured on a network router. The route server can further establish a routing protocol session between the route server and the network device based on the one or more routing protocol packets, and can add a routing entry to a local routing table. Upon adding the routing entry, the route server can automatically invoke an application programming interface (API) for transmitting the routing entry to a Software Defined Networking (SDN) controller.