Method and system for causing intra-AS network traffic to be more evenly balanced
US8135834B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Jun 18, 2002 |
| Grant date | Mar 13, 2012 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 2, 2030 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L45/04
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A system and method enables the balancing of inter-AS traffic from a primary AS to a target AS by adding a virtual node in the primary AS that appears connected to the edge routers that advertise via (I)BGP the ability to forward communications the target AS, and modifying the (I)BGP messages reflected to the primary AS to indicate that only the virtual node may forward communications to the target AS.
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