Patent ID: 8867349

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving network traffic transmitted along a plurality of communication paths, the plurality of communication paths being associated with a plurality of forwarding identifiers that identify destination addresses for the communication paths at device interfaces in a network; identifying a portion of the plurality of forwarding identifiers to match a forwarding identifier associated with a particular virtual private network, each forwarding identifier in the identified portion of the plurality of forwarding identifiers corresponding to a destination address in the particular virtual private network; identifying a policy associated with the particular virtual private network; and regulating a portion of the network traffic associated with the identified portion of the plurality of forwarding identifiers based on the policy, the regulation of the portion of the network traffic including shaping the portion of the network traffic by increasing a first bandwidth allocation at a first routing device of the particular virtual private network and decreasing a second bandwidth allocation at a second routing device of the particular virtual private network.