Patent ID: 8675667

Claim:
A method, comprising: generating an enterprise network by incorporating a plurality of geographically separated enterprise sub-networks communicating through a plurality of common carriers, each enterprise sub-network including a plurality of edge nodes interfacing with users and a core node; separating the enterprise network from the plurality of common carriers by providing to the enterprise network from the plurality of common carriers agnostic transport services for the communications through the plurality of common carriers; and enabling redundancy in the communications among the plurality of geographically separated enterprise sub-networks at least by: connecting at least a subset of the edge nodes of a same geographically separated enterprise sub-network to the core node of another geographically separated enterprise sub-network and distributing enterprise data among the plurality of geographically separated enterprise sub-networks to enable autonomous transaction execution by any edge node of a respective geographically separated enterprise sub-network when that respective geographically separated enterprise sub-network is disconnected from the enterprise network.