Patent ID: 9397900
Filing Date: 2016-07-19
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method of measuring performance in a network, the method comprising: enabling a first network element to transmit and receive information regarding counter resources to and from a second network element, the counter resources being shared among a plurality of Class of Service (CoS) of a virtual local area network (VLAN) or Ethernet Virtual Connection (EVC), each of the plurality of CoS at least used to determine which outbound queue an outbound packet uses; for each CoS, (i) transmitting, from the first network element to the second network element, first counter resources information determined at the first network element, and (ii) receiving at the first network element, second counter resources information determined at the second network element; calculating frame parameters for each CoS at the first network element as a function of the first and second counter resources information; and measuring for each CoS the performance in the network based on the calculated frame parameters.