At&t Intellectual Property I, LP

Ali Nikain

Mohammad Nikain

Daniel Connolly

Ivetta Pogosova

Shahriar Ziari

Nagaraju Sheela

Sekhar Srikantan

Tamir Merhav

Kevin Le

Connie Anderson

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, connecting a plurality of subscriber networks via switched, shared, or dedicated Ethernet connections using a wired network, where the plurality of subscriber networks includes a first network and a second network, providing a provisioning and activation application that enables a user to selectively activate or deactivate a connection to one or more of the plurality of subscriber networks or a cloud service provider, as a first orderable item, and select a plurality of network configuration attributes, as a second orderable item, and based on a request for the connection to the one or more of the plurality of subscriber networks or the cloud service provider, activating the connection that follows the selected plurality of network configuration attributes. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Network connection activation/deactivation platform

Systems or methods that may be used to assist in distributed flow whereby each network element obtains information from a server so a first network element has information to determine what network element to connect with to create virtual private network tunnels associated with a virtual private network service.

Server assisted network discovery (SAND)

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Atlanta, GA, United States of America

Ali Nikain