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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 15, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 26, 2016
Applicant:
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Inventors:
Stephen Callaghan, Seattle, WA (US);
Minsung Kim, San Jose, CA (US);
Leonard Thomas Tracy, Bothell, WA (US);
Assignee:
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04B 17/00 (2015.01); H04L 12/939 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 17/0085 (2013.01); H04L 49/555 (2013.01);
Abstract
Network links are exercised by transmitting network frames across the links at a threshold level of network traffic by filling unutilized bandwidth with test frames. By increasing network traffic across the links, errors are increased and easier to detect. The test frames can be given lower priority than customer traffic so as not to impact the test traffic. The test frames can be designed such that they are dropped upon receipt by another network switch.