Patent ID: 6021117
Filing Date: 2000-02-01
Classification: H04L,H04Q

Abstract:
A method for analyzing traffic on an ATM network, the network comprising a first plurality of stations to be interconnected by a second plurality of ATM connections, the method comprising:intercepting at least one ATM connection characteristic of at least two of said second plurality of ATM connections and storing said at least one ATM connection characteristic in an ATM connection characteristic memory;monitoring an amount of traffic passing over said at least two of said second plurality of ATM connections and accumnulating said amounts of traffic in said ATM connection characteristic memory;for at least one ATM connection subset including said at least two of said second plurality of ATM connections which comply with a retrieval key, the retrieval key comprising a combination of at least one of said ATM connection characteristics, determining a total amount of traffic that has passed over said ATM connection subset by retrieving from said memory, using said retrieval key, the amounts of traffic passing over each ATM connection in said ATM connection subset and summing said amounts; andgenerating an output representation of said total amount of traffic.