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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 2026
Filed:
Nov. 16, 2023
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Arul Murugan Manickam, San Jose, CA (US);
Laxmikantha Reddy Ponnuru, San Ramon, CA (US);
Hongbo Xia, Shanghai, CN;
Govindakrishnan Kannan, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques described herein can enable proactive congestion notifications based on service level agreement (SLA) thresholds. The disclosed techniques can be performed at a network router device. The router can monitor network traffic performance measurements of network traffic associated with an SLA. The SLA can be associated with an SLA policy, and the SLA policy can comprise performance thresholds such as loss/latency/jitter thresholds, and a congestion notification policy. The congestion notification policy can comprise a portion, e.g., a fraction or percentage, applicable to the performance thresholds to determine congestion notification thresholds. The router can send a congestion notification in response to a network traffic performance measurement exceeding a congestion notification threshold.