Patent ID: 7957284
Filing Date: 2011-06-07
Classification: H04L,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A method of optimizing bandwidth usage in a link aggregated network, comprising: a) identifying available bandwidth on a plurality of data links in a link aggregation group; b) selecting the data link with the least available bandwidth; c) determining whether the available bandwidth of the selected data link is less than a guaranteed bandwidth of an incoming data flow; d) if the available bandwidth of the selected data link is less than the guaranteed bandwidth of the incoming data flow, selecting the data link with the next least available bandwidth; e) repeating steps (c) and (d) until the available bandwidth of the selected data link is greater than the guaranteed bandwidth of the incoming data flow; f) assigning the data flow to the data link determined to have an available bandwidth greater than the guaranteed bandwidth of the incoming data flow; g) if none of the data links has an available bandwidth greater than or equal to the guaranteed bandwidth, determining whether an oversubscription factor has been employed and; h) if an oversubscription factor has not been employed, adjusting the bandwidth of each data link with the oversubscription factor and repeating steps (a) through (f).