Abstract: A networking device may determine that communications that is it receiving or sending to a computing device would not use all of the bandwidth of a channel when those communications are being sent or received. The networking device may determine other communications from the computing device or other computing devices to send communications to or from. The networking device may allocate different portions of the bandwidth for each of those communications to be sent or received by the networking device.

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for associating a gateway device as a backup for another gateway device based on the communication characteristics of the gateways. The communication characteristics of the gateways may indicate that the gateways available are suitable backups of each other in the event that one of the gateways becomes inoperable or has an excessive workload. The associations between the gateways may be further based on the network channels used by the gateways for communications.