US Patent:
20080114863, May 15, 2008
Inventors:
Michael E. Baskey - Wappingers Falls NY, US
Lap Thiet Huynh - Cary NC, US
John Reumann - Croton on Hudson NY, US
Debanjan Saha - Mohegan Lake NY, US
Sambit Sahu - Hopewell Junction NY, US
Dinesh Chandra Verma - Mount Kisco NY, US
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY
International Classification:
G06F 15/177
Abstract:
A method of, and system for, configuring a network infrastructure, which includes representing the network infrastructure as a composition of a predetermined number of functional building blocks, configuring a network blue print based on the predetermined number of functional building blocks, and mapping the predetermined number of functional building blocks onto available physical resources of the network infrastructure, such that network configuration can be automated for a wide set of services representing network configuration as a functional composition of elemental blocks.