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Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2020

Filed:

Dec. 06, 2018
Applicant:

Verizon Digital Media Services Inc., Dulles, VA (US);

Inventors:

Derrick Sawyer, Santa Clarita, CA (US);

Marcel Eric Schechner Flores, Los Angeles, CA (US);

Carl Tewksbury, Venice, CA (US);

Sree Priyanka Uppu, Los Angeles, CA (US);

Stephen McQuistin, Kilwinning, GB;

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/173 (2006.01); H04L 12/815 (2013.01); H04L 12/741 (2013.01); H04L 29/12 (2006.01); H04L 12/759 (2013.01); H04L 12/66 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 47/22 (2013.01); H04L 45/028 (2013.01); H04L 45/74 (2013.01); H04L 61/1511 (2013.01); H04L 12/66 (2013.01);
Abstract

Gateway devices at different sites of a primary Anycast network provide access to the sites by advertising a first set of Anycast addresses. A secondary shadow Anycast network advertises different second sets of Anycast addresses from the different sites in order to predetermine traffic shifts that occur as a result of changing one or more of the second set of Anycast addresses that are advertised from one or more of the sites. A traffic shifting device may implement a predetermined traffic shift in the primary Anycast network by selecting a particular second set of network addresses that produces a traffic shift at least equal to the predetermined traffic shift, mapping the particular second set of network addresses to a modified first set of addresses, and modifying routing in the primary Anycast network by advertising the modified first set of addresses instead of the first set of addresses.


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