Patent Document ID: 9900244
Application ID: 14673806
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method, comprising: performing, by one or more computing devices: obtaining historical traffic load data for individual routes of a plurality of routes between a plurality of devices in a network environment, wherein the network environment connects the plurality of devices via a plurality of physical connections, and each individual route of the plurality of routes carries traffic between two devices of the plurality of devices over one or more of the plurality of physical connections between the two devices; obtaining a topology model of the network environment, wherein the topology model includes, for each particular route of the plurality of routes, an indication of a failure-case according to the topology model, wherein the failure-case for a particular route is a failure in one or more of the plurality of physical connections that causes traffic to be diverted onto the particular route from one or more other routes of the plurality of routes affected by the failure; and generating, for each particular route of the plurality of routes, a prediction of failure-case traffic load on the particular route given the failure-case for the particular route according to the historical traffic load data for the plurality of routes and the topology model.