Communication system and communication method

1. A communication system comprising:

a conversion device comprising a computer and configured to connect cloud platforms to a Wide Area Network (WAN); and

controllers respectively disposed for the cloud platforms,

wherein each of the controllers comprises a central processing unit (CPU) and includes a first storage unit comprising a first computer memory device and configured to store a chain that designates, in a processing order, Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) that process a packet received from a user terminal, and

wherein the each of the controllers is configured to provide an instruction of a transfer destination of the packet to a conversion device connected to a same cloud platform, a VNF, or another controller in accordance with the processing order of the chain, and

wherein the conversion device includes a second storage unit comprising the first computer memory device or a second computer memory device and configured to store the chain and a data processing program,

wherein the conversion device is configured to:

construct a Virtual Private Network (VPN), which is connected to a VNF in a cloud platform, in the WAN,

distribute, to a router in the WAN or another conversion device, a route designating the conversion device as a transmission destination that is a route to the VNF in the cloud platform to which the conversion device belongs and distribute, to the router in the WAN, a route to a VNF at a head of the chain when the VNF is in the cloud platform to which the conversion device belongs, and

transfer a received packet to a recent VNF in the processing order of the chain when the VNF is in the cloud platform to which the conversion device belongs and configured to transfer the received packet to the conversion device connected to the recent VNF in the processing order of the chain when the VNF is in a cloud platform that is different from the cloud platform to which the conversion device belongs.

2. The communication system according to claim 1 ,

wherein a router receiving a packet selects an optimal route in an Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) from among the distributed routes and transfers the packet.

3. The communication system according to claim 1 ,

wherein the conversion device further constructs a VPN for transmitting the packet to a destination user terminal at an end of the chain.

4. A communication system according to claim 1 ,

wherein the each of the controllers also provides an instruction of a VNF designated in an instruction from a different controller as a transfer destination of the packet in a case in which a VNF immediately before a VNF designated as a transfer destination of the packet in an instruction from the different controller in the processing order of the chain is in the same cloud platform.

5. The communication system according to claim 1 , wherein the each of the controllers is configured to provide an instruction of a transfer destination of the packet to a conversion device based on a pre-determined communication protocol.

6. A communication method executed by a communication system including a conversion device configured to connect cloud platforms to a Wide Area Network (WAN) and controllers respectively disposed for the cloud platforms, the method comprising:

constructing, by the conversion device comprising a computer, a Virtual Private Network (VPN), which is connected to a Virtual Network Function (VNF) in a cloud platform of one or more computers, in the WAN;

referring, by the conversion device, to a second storage unit configured to store a chain for designating VNFs that process a packet received from a user terminal in a processing order, distributing, to a router in the WAN and another conversion device, a route to a VNF that is in a cloud platform to which the conversion device belongs, and distributing, to the router in the WAN, a route to a VNF at a head of the chain when the VNF is in the cloud platform to which the conversion device belongs;

referring, by one of the controllers, to a first storage unit configured to store the chain and, in accordance with the processing order of the chain, providing an instruction of a transfer destination of the packet to the conversion device connected to a same cloud platform, a VNF, or another controller; and

transferring, by the conversion device, the received packet to a recent VNF in the processing order of the chain when the VNF is in the cloud platform to which the conversion device belongs and transferring the received packet to a conversion device connected to the recent VNF in the processing order of the chain when the VNF is in a cloud platform that is different from the cloud platform to which the conversion device belongs.

7. The communication method according to claim 6 ,

wherein a router receiving a packet selects an optimal route in an Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) from among the distributed routes and transfers the packet.

8. The communication method according to claim 6 further comprises:

constructing a VPN, by the conversion device, for transmitting the packet to a destination user terminal at an end of the chain.

9. The communication method according to claim 6 further comprises:

providing, by the controller, an instruction of a VNF designated in an instruction from a different controller as a transfer destination of the packet in a case in which a VNF immediately before a VNF designated as a transfer destination of the packet in an instruction from the different controller in the processing order of the chain is in the same cloud platform.

10. The communication method according to claim 6 , wherein the each of the controllers is configured to provide an instruction of a transfer destination of the packet to a conversion device based on a pre-determined communication protocol.