Jared R Newell, 432565 Derby Dr, San Ramon, CA 94583

2016034, Nov 24, 2016

Sep 28, 2015

14/868177

- Redwood City CA, US
Jared Newell - San Jose CA, US

H04L 12/24
H04Q 11/00
H04L 12/933

In general, this disclosure describes a configurable cable patch panel, or “active panel,” that serves as a demarcation point between a customer area of a communication facility and a provider area of the communication facility. As described herein, the active panel may be dynamically configured to interconnect existing customer-side and provider-side connections to active panel ports in order to facilitate on-demand virtual connections within the communication facility between facility customers and/or between a facility customer and communication facility services. In some examples, a programmable network platform for the communication facility exposes a collection of interfaces by which customers may request virtual connections, which the programmable network platform provisions, in part, by configuring the active panel to interconnect select customer-side ports of the active panel with select provider-side ports of the active panel.