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Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2016

Filed:

Mar. 31, 2014
Applicant:

Sandvine Incorporated Ulc, Waterloo, CA;

Inventor:

Michael Marchetti, Cambridge, CA;

Assignee:

SANDVINE INCORPORATED ULC, Waterloo, Ontario, CA;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04L 12/28 (2006.01); G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 12/803 (2013.01); H04L 12/741 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 47/125 (2013.01); H04L 45/74 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and system for load balancing are provided. The method includes: receiving a tunnel frame from a traffic flow; determining whether the tunnel frame is one of a plurality of frames from a packet; if the frame is one of a plurality of frames, reassembling the plurality of frames associated with the packet to determine an inner IP header; load balancing the packet based on the inner IP header; and applying traffic policies to the packet. The system has: a traffic interface configured to receive a tunnel frame from the traffic flow; a subscriber load balancer configured to determine whether the tunnel frame is one of a plurality of frames from a packet; at least one IP reassembly engine configured to reassemble the plurality of frames associated with the packet to determine an inner IP header; and at least one flow policy engine configured to load balance the packet based on the inner IP header; and apply traffic policies to the packet.


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