Methods and systems for application session modeling and prediction of granular bandwidth requirements

A centrally controllable multi-tenant controller for controlling a plurality of assets across a plurality of distributed computing environments wherein the controller is configured to:

• receive from a networked spoke device information describing network flows to and from an application;
• analyze the information to characterize the application in at least one dimension selected from the group consisting of bi-directional bandwidth usage, network response times, application response times, a number of idle and active application sessions and a maximum number of concurrent application sessions;
• and
• transmit the dimensions to networked spoke devices as traffic profile information.

A method comprising:

• sending network usage data relating to an application usage session from a configurable device to a multi-tenant controller, wherein the network usage data comprises a first type of data flow associated with an application and a second type of data flow associated with the application;
• identifying a bandwidth requirement for each of the first and second types of data flows associated with the application based, at least in part, on historical data relating to the performance of the application and an associated data flow;
• storing within the multi-tenant controller the bandwidth requirement as an application bandwidth profile;
• sending the application bandwidth profile to at least one spoke device;
• and
• using the application bandwidth profile to route data flows associated with the application.