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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2021
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2018
Citrix Systems, Inc., Fort Lauderdale, FL (US);
Karthick Srivatsan, Karnataka, IN;
Marco Murgia, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Chaitra Maraliga Ramaiah, Karnataka, IN;
CITRIX SYSTEMS, INC., Fort Lauderdale, FL (US);
Abstract
A computing system may include point of presence (PoP) servers coupled to a wide area network (WAN) and configured to receive client requests for a Software as a service (SaaS) application(s) from different network branches coupled to the WAN, and connect the network branches with a given SaaS host server from among different SaaS host servers coupled to the WAN and providing the SaaS application(s). The system may also include a PoP selection controller (PSC) coupled to the WAN and cooperating with the PoP servers to determine first network health metrics for connections between the PoP servers and the network branches, determine second network health metrics for connections between the PoP servers and the SaaS host servers, and select a respective PoP server for each network branch to be connected with for providing the SaaS application(s) based upon the first and second network health metrics.