Autonomous internet service scaling in a network

An apparatus comprising:

• a processing device;
• and
• a non-transitory computer-readable medium encoded with instructions, which when executed by the processing device, cause the processing device to:
• sample, over a period of time, communication packets from a stream of packets associated with Internet access by a plurality of connected networks;
• autonomously instantiate, in response to the sampled communication packets and on a computing device of a network, a virtual networking device to increase an available transmission speed for Internet access to the plurality of connected networks;
• and
• autonomously decommission, in response to a network operating condition, a second virtual network device to decrease the available transmission speed for Internet access to the plurality of connected networks.

A communications network comprising:

• a first virtual networking device in communication with and receiving communication packets from a plurality of connected networks, the communication packets associated with Internet access by the plurality of connected networks;
• and
• a computing device in communication with the first virtual networking device, the computing device comprising:
• a processing device;
• and
• a non-transitory computer-readable medium encoded with instructions, which when executed by the processing device, cause the processing device to:
• autonomously instantiate, in response to a sample of the communication packets received over a period of time, a second virtual networking device to increase an available transmission speed for Internet access to the plurality of connected networks;
• and
• autonomously decommission, in response to a network operating condition, a second virtual network device to decrease the available transmission speed for Internet access to the plurality of connected networks.