Akamai Technologies, Inc.

Yoav O Yerushalmi

F Thomson Leighton

Srikanth Thirumalai

Jay Parikh

Ravi Sundaram

Matthew S Levine

Hariharan Rahul

Adrian Soviani

Robert D Kleinberg

Bruce Maggs

Rizwan S Dhanidina

Daniel M Lewin

Anne E Lewin, Legal Representative

Hariharan Shankar Rahul

Andrian Soviani

Jay Gunvantrai Parikh

The invention is an intelligent traffic redirection system that does global load balancing. It can be used in any situation where an end-user requires access to a replicated resource. The method directs end-users to the appropriate replica so that the route to the replica is good from a network standpoint and the replica is not overloaded. The technique preferably uses a Domain Name Service (DNS) to provide IP addresses for the appropriate replica. The most common use is to direct traffic to a mirrored web site.

Global load balancing across mirrored data centers

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Yoav O Yerushalmi