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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2026
Filed:
May. 08, 2023
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Rachee Singh, Ithaca, NY (US);
Anjali, Madison, WI (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The present application relates to a system, apparatus, and method of selecting a topology for a virtual wide area network (vWAN). A wide area network (WAN) includes a plurality of geographically distributed entry points and a plurality of edge datacenters. Each edge datacenter is associated with an entry point and includes computing resources for hosting a vWAN hub. A vWAN manager is configured to: obtain latency measurements from different metropolitan regions to the entry points; receive a set of the metropolitan regions and a number of expected connections for each metropolitan region; and select a plurality of vWAN hub locations at selected edge datacenters, each selected edge datacenter being associated with a non-empty subset of the metropolitan regions. A weighted latency for the plurality of vWAN hub locations based on the latency measurements and the expected connections is minimized for a number of the selected edge datacenters.