Packet Replication Over Dynamically Managed Bonded Tunnels

Disclosed herein are systems and methods for sending packet replication over sets of bonded diverse packet paths with packet merge and deduplication at the bonded packet paths' egress thereby providing reduced packet loss, latency, and jitter while simultaneously providing high availability. Collectively these sets of bonded packet paths conveying replicated packets compose a virtual overlay network spanning diverse paths, and potentially diverse providers, and diverse network technologies. A control system continuously monitors the reachability and quality of synthetic or both synthetic traffic and bonded packet path traffic across all possible paths as input to the control system that dynamically while taking into account path cost manages the sets of bonded packet paths. As a function of changing conditions across the employed and available alternate paths the control system inserts and/or removes bonded paths on a bonded paths set basis and/or by modifying the packet replication instructions on a bonded paths set basis to continuously and optimally minimize packet loss and latency while maintaining the high level of availability.