Hitachi, Ltd.

Yasumichi Nonaka

Kenji Kataoka

Koji Suzuki

Kazuhiro Kusama

Akihiro Kamiya

Kota Kawahara

Hitoshi Ihara

In a packet transport network, to determine a path route in which a bottleneck does not occur with a small amount of calculation, provided is a network system, including data transfer devices and a management computer, each of the data transfer devices including IFs, in which the management computer is configured to: store remaining bandwidth information on the each of the IFs; select one of bandwidths; judge, based on the remaining bandwidth information and the selected bandwidth, whether or not the each of the IFs is usable; determine a route candidate though which data is transferred, bypassing the each of the IFs which has been judged to be unusable; judge, based on the remaining bandwidth information, whether or not continuity of the IF through which the route candidate passes is possible; and allocate the route candidate, the continuity of which is possible, to a new path.

Network system, management computer, and bandwidth management method

An arithmetic operation portion including a swap arithmetic operation portion which performs an arithmetic operation of swap information concerned with a path route of a packet, and a label processing portion which sets adjustment of a first label based on a result of the arithmetic operation executed by the swap arithmetic operation portion is provided in a control apparatus to thereby attain compatibility between dispersion of packet transfer load and reduction of an error rate in each link.

Control apparatus

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Yokohama, Japan

Yasumichi Nonaka