Patent ID: 8223655

Claim:
A method for provisioning resources of a packet network, said method comprising: monitoring at least one network performance information parameter associated with communications of data packets; comparing the at least one network performance information parameter with at least one first respective threshold value indicative of degradation of communications of the data packets; determining that the at least one network performance information parameter crosses the at least one first respective threshold value; in response to the at least one network performance information parameter crossing the at least one respective threshold value, performing a first provisioning, using a microprocessor, of network resources to compensate for the degradation of communications of the data packets; comparing the at least one network performance information parameter with at least one second respective threshold value indicative of communications of the data packets; and in response to the at least one network performance information parameter crossing the at least one second respective threshold value, performing a second provisioning of network resources to compensate for the degradation of communications of the data packets, wherein at least one of the first provisioning of the network resources and the second provisioning of the network resources includes slowing rate of communications of data packets that include non-real-time content and halting provisioning of new communication sessions over a network node associated with the degradation of communications of the data packets.