Method and system for performance estimation of a communication link

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer program code stored thereon, the computer program code, when executed by one or more processors implemented on a computing platform, causes the computing platform to perform a method comprising:

• receiving, by the computing platform, operational data including counter values from a communication device after executing active probing and passive probing, the counter values relate to user data traffic transmitted from a communication device to another communication device;
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• training, by the computing platform, a performance estimation processor for the communication device according to the operational data based on active probing data,
• wherein after training the performance estimation processor, the computing platform continues receiving operational data, and uses operational data only to estimate performance with the performance estimation processor and ceases execution of active probing, and
• wherein active probing data results are considered as an accurate estimation of performance of a communication link between the communication device and the another communication device, and active probing data results are used for training the performance estimation processor for when it uses operational data only.