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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2012
Eric Sven-johan Swildens, Mountain View, CA (US);
Richard David Day, Upton, MA (US);
Ajit K. Gupta, Fremont, CA (US);
Eric Sven-Johan Swildens, Mountain View, CA (US);
Richard David Day, Upton, MA (US);
Ajit K. Gupta, Fremont, CA (US);
Akamai Technologies, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
A method for determining metrics of a content delivery and global traffic management network provides service metric probes that determine the service availability and metric measurements of types of services provided by a content delivery machine. Latency probes are also provided for determining the latency of various servers within a network. The latency probe calculates, for example, the latency from its location to a client's location using the round trip time for sending a packet to the client to obtain the latency value for that client. DNS servers use the latency test results, along with traffic weightings, to determine a server to return for a given DNS name.