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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 24, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 24, 2013
Eci Telecom Ltd., Petach Tikva, IL;
Shell Nakash, Kfar Saba, IL;
Gideon Agmon, Kfar Saba, IL;
ECI TELECOM LTD., Petach Tikva, IL;
Abstract
A method is provided for managing congestion of traffic in a packet switch, which comprises the steps of: providing more than two different congestion levels at the switch for handling traffic associated with at least two different priorities, one being a low priority traffic and another being a high priority traffic; for each traffic flow having a specific destination and priority, determining a current congestion level that matches a congestion control level which is selected from among the more than two congestion control levels, and associating a different set of operations for handling each respective traffic flow, depending on its priority and its current congestion level, and for each traffic flow, performing operations that match the respective associated set of operations, and wherein a rate at which these operations are performed for each respective traffic flow increases when a higher congestion level occurs at that respective traffic flow.