METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING A DISTRIBUTED ROUTER ARCHITECTURE

摘要

An apparatus for providing a distributed router architecture includes a processing element and a resource availability element. The processing element may be configured to receive indications of receipt of data associated with a service for routing to a destination address. The resource availability element may be in communication with the processing element and may be configured to monitor resource usage over a plurality of distributed resource planes. The processing element may be further configured to allocate a resource associated with routing the data based on the monitored resource usage.