COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK MANAGEMENT

摘要

The present invention provides a communications network which is divided into a plurality of segments, with each segment comprising one or more routers and one or more communications links that connect the routers. Quality of service (QoS) thresholds can be defined for each of the segments and if it is predicted that one of these thresholds is to be breached in one of the segments, for example due to a communications link or a router being overloaded, then a segment management module associated with that segment will re-route the traffic.