Patent ID: 8055755

Claim:
A system for making quality measurements in a network having a plurality of routers for routing traffic through the network, the system comprising: a hardware server, wherein the hardware server is configured to: take measurements on each path of all paths within the network, wherein the each path is between a pair of routers from the plurality of routers; determine paths of the all paths within the network that have data related to the measurements that falls below a target value; determine a particular router of the plurality of routers that is associated with the paths that have data related to the measurements that falls below the target value; determine if the particular router is a connection point for two or more of the paths that have data related to the measurements that falls below the target value; and charge, after it is determined that the particular router is the connection point for two or more of the paths that have data related to the measurements that falls below the target value, a single degradation against the particular router of the plurality of routers even though the particular router is responsible for multiple path failures and tracking a number of degradations for each one of the plurality of routers in the network over a period of time.