Patent ID: 8295201
Filing Date: 2012-10-23
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: generating a request for a plurality of networking parameters relating to a path traversing a first autonomous system including a composite transport group domain and a second autonomous system including a label-switched domain, wherein the first autonomous system and the second autonomous system are layers of a connection-oriented transport environment, and the composite transport group comprises a logical bundling of one or more of physical and logical links; receiving the plurality of networking parameters associated with a reservation of capacity for the path; evaluating the plurality of networking parameters to optimize resource utilization across all autonomous system layers of the connection-oriented transport environment; and selectively accepting the reservation based on the evaluation, wherein the second autonomous system is a higher layer of the connection-oriented transport environment than the first autonomous and generates the request, and wherein the plurality of networking parameters comprises path cost information and path latency information, and one or more of administrative cost information, bandwidth information, and a ranking of reserved paths.