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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 19, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 20, 2006
Rahul G. Patel, Nashua, NH (US);
Dana Blair, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Rahul G. Patel, Nashua, NH (US);
Dana Blair, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A technique dynamically applies a link utilization based policy to traffic traversing links in a computer network. According to the novel technique, a link utilization threshold is assigned to one or more links. The link utilization threshold may be, for example, a maximum amount of traffic for an individual link, or a maximum difference between links (e.g., for load balanced traffic). The link utilization of the one or more links may be monitored, such as, e.g., by an optimized edge routing (OER) process. In the event that the link utilization surpasses the threshold, the link is considered to be out-of-policy (OOP), and traffic may be redirected to other available links accordingly in order to bring the link back in policy ('IN-POLICY').