Patent ID: 8804509

Claim:
A method comprising: measuring port usage data related to each of a plurality of physical ports associated with a link aggregation group; estimating a bandwidth requirement of a requested media stream; when the requested media stream comprises non-video data: selecting a port of the plurality of physical ports in accordance with a static bandwidth allocation; and sending the requested media stream to a destination device via the selected port; and when the requested media stream comprises video data: identifying a least loaded physical port of the link aggregation group; determining whether an estimated total traffic load of the least loaded physical port exceeds a threshold, wherein the estimated total traffic load of the least loaded physical port is a sum of the estimated bandwidth requirement of the requested media stream and a traffic load of the least loaded physical port; in response to a determination that the estimated total traffic load of the least loaded physical port does not exceed the threshold, sending the requested media stream to the destination device via the least loaded physical port; and in response to a determination that the estimated total traffic load of the least loaded physical port exceeds the threshold: dropping an existing media stream at the least loaded physical port and sending the requested media stream to the destination device via the least loaded physical port; or rejecting transmission of the requested media stream.