Patent ID: 8472313
Filing Date: 2013-06-25
Classification: H04J

Abstract:
1. A method for generating bypass circuits in a network, comprising: associating a plurality of nodes with the network, each node having traffic from one or more source-destination pairs and associated with a traffic list for each source-destination pair; calculating an aggregate traffic flow, for each node in the network, for all the source-destination pairs flowing through the node; and determining a set of bypass circuits, for each node in the network, if the aggregated traffic flow for a specific source-destination pair is larger than a preset threshold, each bypass circuit is associated with a select source node and a select destination node, wherein the select source node and the select destination node need not be a source-destination pair and wherein a sub-set of traffic for the specific source-destination pair is diverted through at least one bypass circuit of the set of bypass circuits and a remaining portion of the traffic for the specific source-destination pair is transmitted via a regular path determined by a local routing table.