Patent ID: 7764628

Claim:
A method executed by an administration module coupled to a given network, comprising: relative to a network that is a peering network of said given network receiving information that informs said module of data flow incoming from said peering network to said given network and data flow outgoing from said given network to said peering network, and also informs said module of customers of said given network from which said outgoing data flows and to which said incoming data flows; for each of said customers, developing from said information traffic burden data and employing the developed data, together with previously developed measures of average outgoing and incoming data flows, new measures of average outgoing and incoming data flows; developing for said given network a new measure of average outgoing and incoming data flows from said new measures of average outgoing and incoming data flows; reaching a determination, from a ratio of said new average outgoing data flow and said new average incoming data flow, regarding an imbalance condition relative to said peering network; when said determination reveals a condition that approaches or crosses into said imbalance condition, changing policy relative to routing of incoming flows to at least one of said customers of said given network from a first algorithm to a second algorithm.