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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2007
Michelle A. Waggener, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Michael U. Bencheck, Richardson, TX (US);
Scott Ray Kotrla, Wylie, TX (US);
Matthew William Turlington, Richardson, TX (US);
Christopher Nicholas Delregno, Rowlett, TX (US);
Richard C. Schell, Allen, TX (US);
Michelle A. Waggener, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Michael U. Bencheck, Richardson, TX (US);
Scott Ray Kotrla, Wylie, TX (US);
Matthew William Turlington, Richardson, TX (US);
Christopher Nicholas DelRegno, Rowlett, TX (US);
Richard C. Schell, Allen, TX (US);
VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
An apparatus, method and computer-readable storage medium are provided for calculating an estimated throughput requirement of a network, such as to facilitate selecting the minimum bandwidth, maximum bandwidth or some other appropriate bandwidth for providing network services to a customer accessing that network. In this regard, a method of calculating a throughput requirement of a network includes receiving a bandwidth requirement. The method also includes calculating a data link-layer frame rate requirement based on the bandwidth requirement and a frame size, where the calculated frame rate requirement is limited by a line rate for transmission of data packets across a core network. In addition, the method includes calculating a data link-layer throughput requirement based on the calculated frame rate requirement and the frame size.