Patent ID: 8885549

Claim:
A method, comprising: receiving, by a computing device, bandwidth information associated with a very small aperture terminal (VSAT) network; calculating, by the computing device, burstable and allocated bandwidths for VSAT carriers of the VSAT network to ensure that the VSAT carriers have bandwidth available for traffic that exceeds a minimum target burstable bandwidth, calculating the burstable and allocated bandwidths including one or more of: using an input value for an allocated bandwidth of the burstable and allocated bandwidths, calculating the allocated bandwidth based on a quantity of VSATs, a peak data rate, an oversubscription (OS) value, a quantity of calls, and a type of carrier bandwidth, or calculating the allocated bandwidth based on the quantity of VSATs, the peak data rate, the OS value, the quantity of calls, the type of carrier bandwidth, and an absolute bandwidth; and implementing, by the computing device, the burstable and allocated bandwidths in the VSAT network.