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Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2019

Filed:

Sep. 28, 2016
Applicant:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);

Inventor:

Colin John Whittaker, Dublin, IE;

Assignee:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/707 (2013.01); H04L 12/741 (2013.01); H04L 12/755 (2013.01); H04L 12/775 (2013.01); H04L 12/935 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/583 (2013.01); H04L 45/021 (2013.01); H04L 45/24 (2013.01); H04L 45/54 (2013.01); H04L 45/745 (2013.01); H04L 49/3009 (2013.01);
Abstract

Technologies are provided for distributing intra-network communications evenly across routers in a multi-tier network. Routers in a middle tier of the network receive data transmissions from a router in a lower tier of the network and determine that a destination of the data transmissions is another router in the lower tier of the network. Instead of routing the data transmissions to the destination router directly, the routers in the middle tier of the network route the data transmissions to other routers in a higher tier of the network. The routers in the higher tier of the network then route the data transmissions back to routers in the middle tier of the network, distributing the data transmissions evenly across routers in the middle tier that are connected to the destination router in the lower tier.


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