METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AN END-TO-END SOLUTION TO DELIVER CONTENT IN A NETWORK

摘要

Described herein is an end-to-end solution (i.e., capable of constructing a content delivery network all the way from an origin server to end user devices) which provides a managerial overview to what has been a very disjoint build-out of networks. In the past, networks have evolved to serve particular needs, as opposed to being architected from a strategic view. What this does is to allow someone (e.g., content provider, network operator, etc.) to impose a strategy over those networks. Rather than having to construct solutions that deliver a particular kind of content, a particular security requirement, a particular latency requirement, etc., one can simply provision particular types of nodes as needed when needed.

主权项

1. A method, comprising:
receiving, via a web portal, design information for a network infrastructure that facilitates deployment of services and associated data across physical and virtualized resources at any point in an end-to-end content delivery path between a content source and a content consumer according to technical and business needs of a content provider, the network infrastructure containing one or more nodes; storing the design information in: (i) one or more repositories, the repositories containing data, packaging information and metadata of the one or more nodes, and (ii) one or more map files specifying the respective addresses of the one or more nodes; deploying the network infrastructure based on the design information stored in the one or more repositories and the one or more map files, thereby instantiating the nodes of the network infrastructure and communicatively coupling the nodes with one another; and registering the instantiated nodes with a global software load balancer (GSLB).