Proactive congestion notification based on service level agreement thresholds

A device comprising:

• one or more processors;
• one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
• monitoring network traffic performance measurements of network traffic associated with a service level agreement (SLA),
• wherein the SLA is associated with an SLA policy,
• wherein the SLA policy comprises at least one performance threshold,
• wherein the SLA policy comprises a congestion notification policy, and
• wherein the congestion notification policy comprises a portion applicable to the performance threshold in order to determine a congestion notification threshold;
• and
• sending a congestion notification in response to a network traffic performance measurement of the network traffic performance measurements exceeding the congestion notification threshold.

A method comprising:

• configuring an SLA policy applied at a router, wherein configuring the SLA policy comprises:
• configuring at least one performance threshold applicable to network traffic;
• and
• configuring a congestion notification policy comprising a portion applicable to the performance threshold in order to determine a congestion notification threshold:
• monitoring network traffic performance measurements of the network traffic;
• and
• sending a congestion notification in response to a network traffic performance measurement of the network traffic performance measurements exceeding the congestion notification threshold.