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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 22, 2013
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Warren Scott Wainner, Sterling, VA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
System, method, and computer program product to perform an operation, the operation comprising capturing, at one or more peering routers, parameters for a plurality of data packets sent by a client device and specifying a destination network address, identifying which peering router captured the parameters for each of the plurality of data packets, determining, based on the identified peering routers, a first peering router nearest to the client, relative to the other peering routers, identifying a first content cache, of a plurality of content caches in a content distribution network, nearest to the first peering router, and fulfilling a content request from the client device using content stored on the first content cache.