Invention Grant
- Patent Title: System and method for aggregating and reporting network traffic data
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Application No.: US14997005Application Date: 2016-01-15
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Publication No.: US09794142B2Publication Date: 2017-10-17
- Inventor: Raoul Alcala , Niclas Comstedt , Jeff Whitaker
- Applicant: LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
- Applicant Address: US CO Broomfield
- Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLC
- Current Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CO Broomfield
- Main IPC: G01R31/08
- IPC: G01R31/08 ; H04L12/26 ; H04L12/54 ; H04L12/851

Abstract:
A method for analyzing traffic in a communications network includes sampling data packets at a plurality of network interconnection points, wherein sampling the data packets includes generating a plurality of sampled packet data in one or more standardized formats, converting the sampled packet data from the one or more standardized formats into a neutral format, and aggregating the sampled packet data in the neutral format from the plurality of network interconnection points. A system includes a communications node operable to sample data packets flowing through and generate sample packet data in a specified format, a collector node operable to convert the sampled packet data into a neutral format, the collector node further operable to map IP addresses of the sampled packet data to corresponding prefixes in a routing table; and an aggregator node operable to aggregate neutrally formatted sampled packet data from a plurality of collector nodes.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160182325A1 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AGGREGATING AND REPORTING NETWORK TRAFFIC DATA Public/Granted day:2016-06-23
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