AT&T Intellectual Property I, LP

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Jay Charles Borkenhagen

Thomas Bradley Scholl

Richard Kwapniewski

Alexandre Gerber

Susan Martens

Systems and methods are described that instruct routers having constrained hardware/memory to redirect all outbound traffic to a helper router. The helper router contains a full routing table that can forward any packet to its destination. In a large service provider network, helper routers may be distributed at multiple locations across the network. Since packets must detour through the helper router, the distributed helper routers minimize latency.

Anycast-based internet protocol redirection to alleviate partial routing tables

A method that measures ratio, relative to a peering network, of traffic burden of incoming traffic to traffic burden of outgoing traffic, where traffic burden takes into account traffic volume and distance that the traffic traverses through the network. A determination is made from this ratio as to whether an imbalance exists with the peering network. With the assistance of a simulation of changes in routing policy and their effects, an existing or impending imbalance is remedied by changing the routing policy relative to particular customers, for example from a 'hot potato' routing policy to a 'best exit' routing policy.

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Jay Charles Borkenhagen