Patent ID: 9185042
Filing Date: 2015-11-10
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A system comprising: a plurality of access nodes configured to provide one or more services to customer equipment; and a plurality of transport elements coupled together to form a network, each of the plurality of transport elements comprising a network node having a processor coupled to a transmitter, a receiver and a memory; wherein each transport element is configured to couple the receiver to the network and the transmitter to the network and receive, via the receiver, data packets originally committed to the network by one or more of the other transport elements and to commit, via the transmitter, data packets to the network, each data packet assigned to one of a plurality of traffic classes; wherein each respective transport element is further configured to shape a first set of traffic comprising transit traffic data packets received from, and originally committed to the network by, another transport element based on the respective traffic class of each data packet and to shape a second set of traffic comprising local traffic data packets to be originally committed to the network by the respective transport element based on the respective traffic class of each data packet, the first set of traffic shaped separately from the second set of traffic; wherein each respective transport element is further configured to shape the shaped first set of traffic together with the shaped second set of traffic based on respective weights associated with the first set of traffic and the second set of traffic.