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

Claim 9:
10. A system comprising:
a private cloud network;
a private management network; and
a virtualized network function (VNF) communicatively coupled to a public gateway, the VNF comprising:
a cloud virtual domain communicatively coupling the VNF to a cloud service via the private cloud network,
a management virtual domain, and
an external virtual domain configured to receive, from a cloud client device via 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 of the external virtual domain and the management virtual domain.