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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsAlain Benayoun, Jacques Fieschi, Patrick Michel, Jean-Francois Le Pennec
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Data transmission system for transmitting packets of data from a source workstation (10) to a destination workstation (18) wherein the packets of data are transmitted over at least an IP network (14) between an ingress node (16) connected to the source workstation and an egress node (20) connected to the destination workstation, wherein each router within the intermediary nodes along the data path from the ingress node to the egress node determines the best route in a routing table defined by the contents of a field contained in each packet of data being received. For this, the router of the ingress node comprises a configuration table which defines the contents of the TOS field in function of information associated with the 4/5 level protocol such as TCP or UDP.
A router suitable for use in transmitting a packet of data through a communication network wherein the best route through the network is determined at each node, said router comprising:
A method for determining the route of a packet through a communication network, said method comprising the acts of:
A method for determining the route of a packet through a communication network, said method comprising the acts of:
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