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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 12, 2022
Filed:
May. 04, 2018
T-mobile Usa, Inc., Bellevue, WA (US);
Chunming Liu, Bellevue, WA (US);
Fei Yu, Bellevue, WA (US);
T-Mobile USA, Inc., Bellevue, WA (US);
Abstract
In a network, communications between nodes in the network can be routed along different communication pathways. The network can include subnetworks provided and administered by third parties, and can include virtual private networks (VPNs), so that the different pathways can be or include VPN tunnels that pass through different subnetworks of the communications network. A central controller can monitor performance of the pathways, including those not in primary use, and dynamically adjust routing of communications traffic between the nodes by directing communication traffic to specific pathways or tunnels. The controller can direct different types of traffic (for example, data, voice) to particular pathways, and can direct traffic to different pathways based on direction of traffic flow (for example, uplink along one pathway and downlink along another pathway). Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) can be provided to enable the controller to request changes to pathways by sending configuring information for routers in those pathways.