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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2009
Applicants:
Anupam Bharali, San Jose, CA (US);
Qingming MA, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventors:
Anupam Bharali, San Jose, CA (US);
Qingming Ma, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 3/24 (2006.01); H04L 12/56 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In general, the invention is directed to techniques of load balancing network traffic among paths on a point-to-multipoint overlay network. In load balancing the network traffic, the techniques take into consideration costs associated with paths through the overlay network and costs associated with paths beyond the egress points of the overlay network, even when such costs may be unequal.