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Vendor-neutral policy based mechanism for enabling firewall service in an MPLS-VPN service network

  • US 8,914,868 B2
  • Filed: 03/03/2006
  • Issued: 12/16/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/03/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for provisioning firewalls in one or more networks comprising:

  • creating a vendor-neutral firewall policy;

    selecting one of the one or more networks that requires provisioning a vendor-neutral firewall;

    transforming the created vendor-neutral firewall policy to a vendor-specific firewall policy as a function of the selected one of the one or more networks; and

    uploading the vendor-specific firewall policy to at least one router of the selected one of the one or more networks.

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