Patent ID: 7886054

Claim:
A method comprising: displaying, via a graphical user interface (GUI) at a computing device, a graphical representation of a network including a first media aggregation manager and a second media aggregation manager, wherein the first and second media aggregation managers are configured to: establish a single reservation protocol session that reserves bandwidth from a plurality of routers along a first path of a plurality of paths between the first and second media aggregation managers; allocate the reserved bandwidth among a plurality of application sessions, each of which is between one of a first plurality of communication devices coupled to the first media aggregation manager and one of a second plurality of communication devices coupled to the second media aggregation manager; the computing device displaying, via the GUI, a first projected link utilization illustrating predicted bandwidth usage for the plurality of routers along the first path; and in response to receiving input via the GUI selecting the first projected link utilization, the computing device instructing the first and second media aggregation managers to establish the single reservation protocol session by reserving bandwidth from each of the plurality of routers along the first path.