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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2011
Filed:
Nov. 14, 2007
Garry Paul Epps, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
David Delano Ward, Somerset, WI (US);
John H. W. Bettink, San Jose, CA (US);
Christopher Yates Satterlee, Cupertino, CA (US);
Mohammed Ismael Tatar, Kanata, CA;
Clarence Filsfils, Brussels, BE;
Garry Paul Epps, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
David Delano Ward, Somerset, WI (US);
John H. W. Bettink, San Jose, CA (US);
Christopher Yates Satterlee, Cupertino, CA (US);
Mohammed Ismael Tatar, Kanata, CA;
Clarence Filsfils, Brussels, BE;
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Real-time customer packet traffic is instrumented to determine measured delays between two or more points along a path actually traveled by a packet, such as within or external to one or more packet switching devices. These measurements may include delays within a packet switching device other than the ingress and egress time of a packet. These measured delays can be used to determine whether or not the performance of a packet switching device or network meets desired levels, especially for complying with a Service Level Agreement.