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To: Gord Wilson who wrote (1905)	2/2/2001 4:52:51 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 46821

Gord, "... if any work was being done to apply fuzzy logic to problems like traffic congestion, router updates or other types of data comm issues." Some backbone providers, peering exchanges (early Above.Net comes to mind) and ISPs make use of dynamic traffic management software and near-term capacity demand forecasting (thus, are allowed to do dynamic allocation of bandwidth and router resources) through the use of algorithms and inference software. In other instances, there are "network health" and certain other types of maintenance applications used by large operators that employ AI. Years ago there was an outfit called Avante Garde (don't know if they are still around) that was an early adopter of AI in Enterprise and Carrier Network Management Systems. Their products were used for automated trend analyses and trouble histories that were used in real-time problem determination and resolution. But I fear that they may have been a bit ahead of their time (circa 1987). Has anyone heard from them again? Or know who may have acquired them? Similar schemes are employed to assess <SWAG> network usage for billing purposes, in the never-too-clear area of internet peering and transiting. Is this what you are getting at? If not, what exactly are your referring to by "fuzzy logic?" FAC