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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 25, 2017
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Laura Sharpless, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ramanan Vaidyanathan, San Ramon, CA (US);
Keerthi Manjunathan Swarnamanjunathan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
The subject disclosure relates to systems and methods for improving multicast traffic flows in a computer network. In some aspects, a method of the technology includes steps for receiving multicast traffic statistics from each of a plurality of switches in a computer network, aggregating the multicast traffic statistics into a time-series database, and identifying a low-performing multicast flow based on the time-series database. In some aspects, the method can include steps for automatically reconfiguring the computer network to improve the low-performing multicast flow. Systems and machine readable media are also provided.