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US 9,794,127 B2Granted
Virtual bandwidth management deployment architectures
AssigneeSymantec Corporation
InventorGuy Riddle
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Abstract
Control and management of bandwidth at networks remote from the physical bandwidth management infrastructure. Particular implementations allow network equipment at a plurality of data centers, for example, to manage network traffic at remote branch office networks without deployment of network devices at the remote branch office networks.
Claims30
An apparatus comprising
- one or more processors;
- a computer-readable medium, comprising computer-readable instructions operative, when loaded and executed, to cause the one or more processors to:
- partition network bandwidth across a plurality of partitions, wherein:
- a local partition corresponds to a coordinated partition of a node of a remote network site, the remote network site in communication with the apparatus via a wide area network;
- and
- the coordinated partition is associated with coordinated partition configuration information that:
- identifies a maximum bandwidth limit for the node of the remote network site;
- includes a local maximum bandwidth configuration comprising a local maximum bandwidth limit;
- and
- includes a host list identifying one or more network application traffic management devices at respective remote locations across the wide area network;
- exchange bandwidth consumption data for the coordinated partition with the one or more network application traffic management devices identified in the host list;
- and
- adjust, for the coordinated partition, the local maximum bandwidth configuration based on the maximum bandwidth limit for the node of the remote network site and on observed local and remote bandwidth consumption of the coordinated partition.
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A method for an apparatus, comprising:
- partitioning network bandwidth across a plurality of partitions, wherein:
- a local partition corresponds to a coordinated partition of a node of a remote network site, the remote network site in communication with the apparatus via a wide area network;
- and
- the coordinated partition is associated with coordinated partition configuration information that:
- identifies a maximum bandwidth limit for the node of the remote network site;
- includes a local maximum bandwidth configuration comprising a local maximum bandwidth limit;
- and
- includes a host list identifying one or more network application traffic management devices at respective remote locations across the wide area network;
- exchanging bandwidth consumption data for the coordinated partition with the one or more network application traffic management devices identified in the host list;
- and
- adjusting, for the coordinated partition, the local maximum bandwidth configuration based on the maximum bandwidth limit for the node of the remote network site and on observed local and remote bandwidth consumption of the coordinated partition.
8 more elements
A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising computer-readable instructions operative, when loaded and executed, to cause one or more processors of an apparatus to:
- partition network bandwidth across a plurality of partitions, wherein:
- a local partition corresponds to a coordinated partition of a node of a remote network site, the remote network site in communication with the apparatus via a wide area network;
- and
- the coordinated partition is associated with coordinated partition configuration information that:
- identifies a maximum bandwidth limit for the node of the remote network site;
- includes a local maximum bandwidth configuration comprising a local maximum bandwidth limit;
- and
- includes a host list identifying one or more network application traffic management devices at respective remote locations across the wide area network;
- exchange bandwidth consumption data for the coordinated partition with the one or more network application traffic management devices identified in the host list;
- and
- adjust, for the coordinated partition, the local maximum bandwidth configuration based on the maximum bandwidth limit for the node of the remote network site and on observed local and remote bandwidth consumption of the coordinated partition.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.