Patent Document ID: 9065730
Application ID: 14180961
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for managing network capacity, the method comprising: determining demand estimates for a communication network, the communication network having a network configuration corresponding to a plurality of network nodes interconnected by network paths; identifying a set of failure scenarios for the communication network; for individual failure scenarios of the set of failure scenarios, modeling the failure scenario for the communication network, the failure scenario identifying a failure of at least one network path or network node; predicting routing results for data traffic between the plurality of network nodes and network paths based on the failure scenario, wherein the data traffic bypasses the at least one failed network path or network node; calculating load estimates for the at least one failure scenario based, at least in part on, the predicted routing results and the demand estimates; modeling changes to the network configuration of the communication network based, at least in part, on the calculated load estimates; and calculating updated load estimates for the failure scenario based, at least in part, on the changes to the network configuration of the communication network.