20120182865 | Systems, Methods, and Apparatuses for Managing the Flow of Traffic in Data Networks - Methods or systems for management and/or optimization of at least a portion of a data network by generating a set of paths between each origin and destination pair, pruning the set of paths to generate a pruned set of paths; and computing an optimum path between each origin and destination pair. Methods and systems for generating a diverse set of path options for the routing of traffic within at least a portion of a network comprising: generating a set of paths between each origin and destination pair; and pruning the set of paths to generate a pruned set of diverse path options within at least a portion of a network. | 07-19-2012 |