Patent ID: 8284696
Filing Date: 2012-10-09
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: receiving data from a plurality of ingress provider edge devices; identifying a plurality of ingress customer devices through querying a virtual private network configuration file, wherein the virtual private network configuration file maps one of the plurality of ingress provider edge devices and an input interface to each of the plurality of the ingress customer devices; identifying an egress customer device as a function of a virtual private network label for each of a plurality of data flows and a respective egress provider edge device; generating a two-dimensional traffic matrix based on the plurality of data flows between the plurality of ingress provider edge devices and the plurality of ingress customer devices, wherein the two-dimensional traffic matrix indicates traffic between the plurality of ingress customer devices and the respective identified egress customer device; and outputting billing information in the two-dimensional traffic matrix with the plurality of ingress customer devices along a first axis of the matrix and the respective identified egress customer device along a second axis of the matrix.