Patent ID: 11880705
Assignee: EQUINIX, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A computing device comprising:
processing circuitry coupled to a memory;
a virtual network function (VNF) configured for execution by the processing circuitry, wherein the VNF comprises:
a cloud virtual domain communicatively coupling the VNF to a cloud service;
a management virtual domain; and
an external virtual domain having a public Internet Protocol (IP) address, the external virtual domain configured to receive, from a cloud client device on a public network, an authentication request providing access credentials for a VNF customer,
wherein the VNF is configured to, in response to a determination that the access credentials are valid credentials for the VNF customer, allow the cloud client device to configure the cloud virtual domain and disallow the cloud client device from configuring the external virtual domain and the management virtual domain.