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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2011
Vidhyalakshmi Karthikeyan, London, GB;
Detlef Daniel Nauck, London, GB;
Vidhyalakshmi Karthikeyan, London, GB;
Detlef Daniel Nauck, London, GB;
BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY, London, GB;
Abstract
The present invention provides a communications network which is divided into a plurality of segments, with, each segment comprising one or more routers and one or more communications links that connect the routers. Each of the segments also comprises a segment management module. Each of the segment management modules reports to a supervisory management module and the communications network may comprise one or more supervisory management modules. If a segment management module predicts that a QoS threshold will be breached then it may re-route a data flow within that segment. If such a re-route is not possible then it will send a request to its supervisory management module to initiate a re-routing to a further segment.