Cisco Technology, Inc.

Xiao-Rong Wang

Hongbo Xia

Yu Zhang

Changhong Shen

Jianda Liu

Yin Wang

Lulu Wang

Jiayi You

Techniques and architecture are described for tracking flows of packets in a network using a packet color marking scheme for obtaining network end-to-end traffic flow metrics in the network. In particular, in configurations, a user may be prompted to specify a site and a virtual private network (VPN) at which to start a trace for packet flows using a coloring marking scheme within the network. Given the VPN and the site, it is possible to monitor interested packet flows and apply metadata, e.g., colors, on flow packets. Remote wide area network (e.g., software defined WAN (SD-WAN)) routers receiving the packets with metadata may automatically trace the same flow and apply the same metadata to a next hop router. Hence, an end-to-end network path may be discovered.

Network end-to-end traffic flow statistics from arbitrary network location

According to certain embodiments, a system comprises one or more processors and one or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media comprising instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause one or more components of the system to perform operations. The operations comprise sending data from a hub to a spoke and receiving feedback from the spoke at the hub. The feedback is based on at least one of bandwidth utilization or occurrence of a congestion state detected by the spoke. The operations further comprise adjusting a shaper rate of an adaptive Quality of Service (QoS) shaper based at least in part on the feedback received from the spoke.

Dynamic deterministic adjustment of bandwidth across multiple hubs with adaptive per-tunnel quality of service (QoS)

The present disclosure is directed to determining bandwidth capacity in a WAN path and includes one or more processors and one or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media comprising instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause one or more components of the system to perform operations including, selecting a SD-WAN path for which to determine bandwidth capacity, wherein the path is associated with a Quality of Service (QoS) shaper having a pre-determined shaper rate, incrementally increasing a test load applied on the selected path, wherein the test load is applied concurrently with existing user traffic, calculating a performance score for the path after each increase in the test load, determining a performance of the path based on the calculated performance score, and updating the shaper rate of the QoS shaper based on the performance of the path.

Systems and methods for protective proactive adaptive active bandwidth measurement in SD-WAN networks

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Xiao-Rong Wang