DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FLOW IDENTIFICATION IN AN ACCESS NETWORK

摘要

A system and method for tracking and adjusting packet flows through a network having a service delivery node and one or more residential services gateways. Packet flows are recognized as they pass through one or more residential services gateway and flow analytics information corresponding to the packet flows recognized in the residential services gateways are transferred from the residential gateways to the flow identification control unit. The flow analytics information received from the residential services gateways is analyzed within the flow identification control unit and traffic through one or more of the service access platform and the residential services gateways is adjusted, if necessary, as a function of the flow analytics information analyzed by the flow identification control unit.

主权项

1. In a network having a service access platform connected to one or more residential services gateways and to a flow identification control unit, wherein the service access platform distributes packet flows to the residential service gateways, a flow identification method comprising:
recognizing, within each residential services gateway, packet flows passing through the residential services gateway; transferring flow analytics information corresponding to the packet flows recognized in the residential services gateways from the residential gateways to the flow identification control unit; and analyzing, within the flow identification control unit, the flow analytics information received from the residential services gateways.