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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 24, 2015
Iphotonix, Richardson, TX (US);
Lance Arnold Visser, Dallas, TX (US);
Louis Gregory Fausak, Parker, TX (US);
Andrew Kennedy Fullford, Dallas, TX (US);
Eric Weeren, Garland, TX (US);
Russell Wiant, Carrollton, TX (US);
Richard Ballantyne Platt, Prosper, TX (US);
iPhotonix, Richardson, TX (US);
Abstract
A virtual edge router network for providing managed services to distributed remote office locations can include routing components that are capable of being autonomously deployed at the network edge, as well as remotely managed, thereby obviating the need for on-site technical support in remote offices of the a small and medium business (SMB) client. Autonomous deployment and remote management is achieved through abstraction of the control and management planes from the data plane. Virtual edge routers may include virtual forwarding units and virtual remote agents instantiated on host devices in each remote office location, as well as a virtual network controller instantiated on a host device in a head-office location. A data plane of the virtual edge router communicatively couples the virtual forwarding units to one another, while a control plane communicatively couples the virtual network controller to each virtual data forwarding unit.