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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2013
Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US);
Stephen Kieran Adolph, Ottawa, CA;
Michael Alain Gazier, Ottawa, CA;
Ian Hamish Duncan, Ottawa, CA;
James Andrew Frodsham, Ottawa, CA;
Denis Fluet, Longueuil, CA;
Ciena Corporation, Hanover, MD (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus facilitates an enterprise to lease virtual appliances from network services provider. The method operates by deploying a converged networking and computing device at a service location, downloading a virtual machine to the converged networking and computing device, activating the virtual machine by a service in the wide area network, and connecting the virtual machine to a provisioned network path over the wide area network. Different virtual machines can be deployed to different locations. The same virtual machine can be deployed to different locations. Moreover, more than one virtual machine may be deployed to more than one service location.