Providing operation services for networks via operations service servers

摘要

Systems and methods of provide operations services for networks through an operations service switch. Multiple customers of the operations service may obtain operations service through the operations switch, as opposed to implementing operations services themselves. Operations service servers are in communication with the operations switch so as to be available for providing operations services to the customer accessing the operations switch. The operations switch may then establish communication links between the customer networks and the operations service servers to facilitate a centralized manner of providing operations services to the customer networks.

主权项

1. An operations service server comprising:
a processor; and a memory having stored thereon instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
receiving a request from an operations switch associated with a first network address, wherein the request includes a second network address associated with a customer network and specifies an operations service to provide to the customer network associated with the second network address, wherein the second network address is an IP address;configuring the operations service based on the request;causing a second communication link to the customer network to be established, wherein the second communication link is an IP based point-to-point link between the operations service server and the second network address that remains active until a request for termination of the operations service is received by the operations service server; andcausing the operations service to be provided to the customer network at the second network address over the second communication link.