Patent ID: 8593957
Filing Date: 2013-11-26
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium on which are stored instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to carry out the step of determining, for a network infrastructure transport facility, a bandwidth capacity that is required in order for the network infrastructure transport facility to be able to handle a forecasted level of elastic data, said determining being based on an assumed set of input data that is to be transferred over the network infrastructure transport facility, the input data including at least one assumed amount of elastic data traffic and at least one performance target parameter value for the network infrastructure transport facility, wherein the determining is based on the computation of a sub-par customer data fraction, the sub-par customer data fraction being given by, for a total amount of payload data transferred over some period of time, the ratio of a) the amount of the payload data that would be transferred across the network infrastructure transport facility at below a given target data rate, given the input data, when the network infrastructure transport facility has the particular bandwidth capacity, to b) the total amount of payload data transferred, wherein the determining comprises and wherein said ratio is