The Bandwidth Allocation Protocol, along with its control protocol, the Bandwidth Allocation Control Protocol, is used to add and remove links in a multilink bundle over PPP, and specifying which peer is responsible for making decisions regarding bandwidth management. The protocol was originally conceived by Craig Richards and Kevin Smith of Shiva Corporation

Shiva Corporation

Shiva Corporation was a company that specialized in computer networking and associated equipment, in particular remote access products. The company was founded in 1985, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States....

 and Ascend Communications

Ascend Communications

Ascend Communications was an Alameda, California-based manufacturer of communications equipment that was later purchased by Lucent Technologies in 1999....

 respectively in 1997 and has since been implemented on a number of routers, including in Cisco IOS

Cisco IOS

Cisco IOS is the software used on the vast majority of Cisco Systems routers and current Cisco network switches...

.