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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 15, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2010
John T. Mulligan, Brick, NJ (US);
David John Knight, Mount Jewett, PA (US);
Ronnie R. Kulper, Morganville, NJ (US);
Don J. Moloney, Oceanport, NJ (US);
Mai-uyen Thi Nguyen, Colts Neck, NJ (US);
Han. Q. Nguyen, Marlboro, NJ (US);
Diana Lynn Toll-verry, Robbinsville, NJ (US);
Simon S. Zelingher, Morganville, NJ (US);
John T. Mulligan, Brick, NJ (US);
David John Knight, Mount Jewett, PA (US);
Ronnie R. Kulper, Morganville, NJ (US);
Don J. Moloney, Oceanport, NJ (US);
Mai-Uyen Thi Nguyen, Colts Neck, NJ (US);
Han. Q. Nguyen, Marlboro, NJ (US);
Diana Lynn Toll-Verry, Robbinsville, NJ (US);
Simon S. Zelingher, Morganville, NJ (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus to provision cloud computing network elements are disclosed. A disclosed example method includes receiving a selection of a cloud networking template from a client, wherein the cloud networking template includes a data center connector type and a wide area network connector type, configuring a virtual machine on a host server based on the cloud networking template, configuring a data center connector based on the data center connector type, configuring a wide area network connector based on the wide area network connector type, and coupling the wide area network connector to the data center connector and coupling the data center connector to the virtual machine within the host server to enable the client to access the virtual machine.