Overview
This book provides procedures for automating bandwidth optimization and traffic engineering. It details how to mitigate link congestion, reserve resources for critical services, and maintain dynamic bandwidth requirements to ensure network reliability.
Network Bandwidth Management
Network bandwidth management enables service providers to automatically optimize how bandwidth is used across a network. It helps reduce congestion, prioritize traffic, and ensure that service levels are maintained by streamlining and automating many aspects of bandwidth and traffic management.
SR Circuit-Style Manager (CSM)
Circuit-style manager provides bandwidth-aware path computation and management for circuit-style Segment Routing Traffic Engineering (SR-TE) policy paths in large-scale networks.
Local Congestion Mitigation (LCM)
Local Congestion Mitigation (LCM) is a network optimization technique that detects congestion on a configurable schedule and provides localized traffic diversion recommendations within a domain. It aims to alleviate congestion by rerouting minimal traffic from congested interfaces to alternate paths with sufficient bandwidth, while preserving the original routing paths as much as possible.
Bandwidth on Demand (BWoD)
Bandwidth on demand allows network users or applications to dynamically request and allocate additional bandwidth as needed, ensuring optimal network performance during periods of high demand.