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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 04, 2010
Jamie S. Kelly, Madison, AL (US);
Andrew T. Ruble, Elkmont, AL (US);
Troy Wayne White, Toney, AL (US);
Jamie S. Kelly, Madison, AL (US);
Andrew T. Ruble, Elkmont, AL (US);
Troy Wayne White, Toney, AL (US);
ADTRAN, Inc., Huntsville, AL (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present disclosure generally pertain to systems and methods for policing packet networks. A system in accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure includes an enqueue policer positioned within an intermediate node of a packet network prior to at least one egress queue. The enqueue policer utilizes information related to destination end-point capacity limits for a given customer in order to police packets based on such information at a relatively early point in the packet network. Thus, a packet that would have been dropped by an egress node due to capacity limits is dropped by the intermediate node thereby preventing the packet from needlessly consuming bandwidth of the network beyond the intermediate node.