Patent ID: 8424096

Claim:
A method, comprising: identifying, by a device, a first community of interest, the first community of interest being associated with information corresponding to a first level of confidentiality; determining, by the device and based on the information corresponding to the first level of confidentiality, a first wavelength used for transmitting and receiving data, via a first network, corresponding to the first level of confidentiality; associating, by the device, the identified community of interest with the determined first wavelength in the first network; configuring, by the device, the network to transmit data using only the determined first wavelength; identifying, by the device, at least one first network device that is associated with the first community of interest; configuring, by the device, the at least one first network device to receive only data transmitted using the determined first wavelength, the at least one first network device being connected to the first network, and the at least one first network device receiving only the data transmitted using the determined first wavelength; determining, by the device and based on a second level of confidentiality, a second wavelength, different than the determined first wavelength, used for transmitting and receiving data corresponding to the second level of confidentiality, the second level of confidentiality being different than the first level of confidentiality and being associated with a second community of interest that is different than the first community of interest; configuring, by the device, a second network to transmit data using only the determined second wavelength; and configuring, by the device, at least one second network device to receive only data transmitted using the determined second wavelength, the at least one second network device receiving only the data transmitted using the determined second wavelength.