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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2007
Applicants:
Wei Wen Chen, Ft. Collins, CO (US);
Peter C. Zwetkof, Ft. Collins, CO (US);
Inventors:
Wei Wen Chen, Ft. Collins, CO (US);
Peter C. Zwetkof, Ft. Collins, CO (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04L 12/66 (2006.01); G06F 15/173 (2006.01); G06F 15/177 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An automated method for ascertaining interconnectivity in a network comprises operating a customer edge device at a site that is physically linked with at least one provider edge router and communicates directly with peer sites via a virtual private network (VPN) connection. Inter-site connectivity is discovered among a plurality of customer edge devices in the network and effective communication paths among the plurality of customer edge devices across geographically distributed sites are presented.