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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 01, 2010
Filed:
Feb. 02, 2004
Alok Khambatkone, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Wushao Wen, Cupertino, CA (US);
Neeraj Gulati, Cupertino, CA (US);
Premal Dinesh Desai, San Jose, CA (US);
Alok Khambatkone, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Wushao Wen, Cupertino, CA (US);
Neeraj Gulati, Cupertino, CA (US);
Premal Dinesh Desai, San Jose, CA (US);
Ciena Corporation, Linthicum, MD (US);
Abstract
An embodiment of the invention provides a flexible bandwidth advertisement method that can reduce the number of routing updates that are sent in a network. In an embodiment of the invention, a method of reducing available bandwidth updates in a link in a communication system is provided. The method includes setting a range of threshold values. An actual available bandwidth in the link is then changed. If the actual available bandwidth changes from a first value within the range of threshold values to a second value within the range of threshold values, then a transmission of an available bandwidth update on the link is then prevented.