Patent ID: 7895333
Filing Date: 2011-02-22
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. An information handling system for identifying a communications link requirement, the information handling system comprising: a processor, a computer readable memory, and a computer readable storage medium; first program instructions to select a first device type category from a plurality of device type categories, wherein each of the plurality of device type categories are different from each other; second program instructions to compute a first device type bandwidth requirement corresponding to the first device type category, the first device type bandwidth requirement including a first unit fault requirement and a first unit performance requirement, wherein the first unit fault requirement specifies a first unit fault bandwidth required to support a first device type's fault monitoring information; third program instructions to select a second device type category from the plurality of device type categories, the second device type category different from the first device type category; fourth program instructions to compute a second device type bandwidth requirement corresponding to the second device type category, the second device type bandwidth requirement including a second unit fault requirement and a second unit performance requirement, wherein the second unit fault requirement specifies a second unit fault bandwidth required to support a second device type's fault monitoring information, wherein the second device type's fault monitoring information is different than the first device type's fault monitoring information; fifth program instructions to receive a plurality of customer device type requirements, wherein the plurality of customer device type requirements include a first customer device type requirement and a second customer device type requirement, the first customer device type requirement including a first customer device type quantity and the second customer device type requirement including a second customer device type quantity; sixth program instructions to map the plurality of customer device type requirements to the plurality of device type categories, the mapping resulting in matching the first customer device type requirement to the first device type category, and matching the second customer device type requirement to the second device type category; seventh program instructions to calculate, in response to the mapping, a first device type total bandwidth requirement by multiplying the first customer device type quantity to the first device type bandwidth requirement, and to calculate a second device type total bandwidth requirement by multiplying the second customer device type quantity to the second device type bandwidth requirement; eighth program instructions to calculate a network management bandwidth requirement that includes both the first device type total bandwidth requirement and the second device type total bandwidth requirement; ninth program instructions to identify the communications link requirement using the network management bandwidth requirement; and wherein the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth program instructions are stored on the computer readable storage medium for execution by the processor via the computer readable memory.