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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2016
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Nitin Kumar Goel, Mountain View, CA (US);
Josue Israel Kuri Obregon, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Alexander Ilo Nikolaidis, Redwood City, CA (US);
Yury Smirnov, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
The disclosure is directed to a network planning tool for planning a topology of a computer network, e.g., for provisioning network capacity. The network planning tool evaluates various factors, e.g., demand projections between a pair of nodes, existing network topology, existing circuits, failure scenarios, and other constraints, and generates a set of circuits that satisfies various demand projections. The set of circuits is robust under failure scenarios and minimizes latency, costs and/or power consumption involved in satisfying the demand projections. The tool assigns each of the circuits to a spectral resource of a physical communication link, e.g., a wavelength of a fiber optic cable, using which it can propagate data traffic between the pair of nodes.