AUTONOMOUS DISTRIBUTED WIDE AREA NETWORK HAVING CONTROL PLANE AND ORDER MANAGEMENT ON A BLOCKCHAIN

    公开(公告)号:US20230040377A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-02-09

    申请号:US17880354

    申请日:2022-08-03

    IPC分类号: H04L9/00 H04L9/32

    摘要: An autonomous distributed wise area network (AD-WAN) includes several nodes, where each node connects a local area network to an open wide area network, and provides tunnels over the open wide area network to other nodes in the AD-WAN so that computing resources behind each node can communicate as if they were located on a common intranet. Each node has a blockchain wallet and receives updates to a private permissioned blockchain ledger for that AD-WAN. The updates are provided by a control node. Set up, and subsequent change to the AD-WAN are commenced via a customer portal which provides order information to the control node, where the control node processes the order information and generates a blockchain update that informs the affected nodes in the AD-WAN as to what changes are to be made. As a result, the blockchain provides both control plane and order management operation of the AD-WAN.