Patent ID: 8396952

Claim:
A method to provision and commission a data communications network having at least one optical channel, the method comprising the steps of: operationally connecting a holographic enterprise interface between the data communications network and a three-dimensional virtual network operations center installed on at least one server; the holographic enterprise interface extracting network information about the network configuration and identifiers of equipment on the network; the holographic enterprise interface receiving information about the at least one server's and other servers' connected on the data communications network I/O configurations; the holographic enterprise interface assigning server identifiers to one or more I/O adapters of the at least one server's and other servers' connected on the data communications network I/O configurations; the holographic enterprise interface modifying one or more of the I/O adapters of the at least one server's and other servers' connected on the data communications network I/O configurations to read and write messages on the data communications network; the holographic enterprise interface associating the at least one server's and other servers' connected on the data communications network identifiers with the network configuration and the one or more identifiers of the equipment on the network; the holographic enterprise interface provisioning the data communications network so that equipment on the network will receive and transmit data in a protocol and data rate compatible with the one or more I/O adapters of the at least one server and other servers connected on the data communications network; the holographic enterprise interface encapsulating at least a portion of received data from the data communications network in a holographic protocol; the holographic enterprise interface transmitting received data to the three-dimensional virtual network operations center; and at least one server rendering the network configuration in the three-dimensional virtual network operations center.