摘要 |
A method of managing a communication network comprising a control plane and a network plane, the network comprising nodes and physical connections of the nodes, each of a plurality of nodes being a logical network device, supporting a control plane portion in the control plane and a network plane portion in the network plane, in which method, the control plane portions of the logical network devices form a logical network in a peer to peer fashion, and control data necessary for administering the communication network and/or for managing users of the communication network is contained in at least one database distributed between at least a plurality of control plane portions of the network devices forming the logical network.
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