Patent ID: 7864749

Claim:
A method for evaluating traffic dispersion associated with at least one exchange in a communications network, the exchange being arranged for applying a set of routing rules for selectively allotting incoming traffic directed toward a given destination to a plurality of links, comprising: incrementally generating traffic quantums representative of said traffic at an evaluation module independent from a plurality of exchanges and nodes of the communications network, based on receiving, at the evaluation module as an input directly from the at least one exchange, a measured traffic volume of said incoming traffic directed towards a given destination; analyzing, at the evaluation module, said set of routing rules generated by the at least one exchange; measuring, at the evaluation module, the volume of said incoming traffic directed toward said given destination; and producing, at the evaluation module, a distribution of said traffic quantums over said links in said plurality, the distribution thus obtained being statistically representative of the dispersion of said incoming traffic over said plurality of links at said exchange.