Patent ID: 9596161
Date: 2017-03-14
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04J,H04L

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method for determining feasibility of establishing a connection in a mesh network including a plurality of bidirectional links with different capacities, and a plurality of switching devices, comprising: (a) monitoring, on a computing device, utilization of bidirectional links connecting the plurality of switching devices; (b) for both directions of each of the links, determining, on the computing device, a predicted utilization of the link in the direction based on the utilization of the link monitored in (a); for each of a plurality of rings in the mesh network: (f) identifying a set of rings from the plurality of rings to be utilized to provide a requested dedicated network connection between at least two locations; and (g) determining whether the requested dedicated network connection is feasible based on the available bandwidth determined in (e).