Patent ID: 9444718
Filing Date: 2016-09-13
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A system comprising: a plurality of points-of-presence (PoPs) and a test network; at least one PoP of the plurality of PoPs comprising a plurality of caching servers operating to respond to content requests from a plurality of users by caching and serving requested content to the plurality of users and with a particular caching server of the plurality of caching servers passing content requests that the particular caching server receives to the test network using a connectionless protocol; and the test network comprising a replay server and a test server, wherein the test server is configured with any one of a configuration and resource under test, and wherein the replay server tests performance of any of the configuration and resource by receiving the content requests from the particular caching server, distributing a particular content request from said content requests to the test server, and monitoring the test server response to the particular content request; wherein the test server is configured with a routing table mapping an address of a user originating the particular content request to the replay server; wherein the test network further comprises a plurality of test servers, and wherein the replay server further tests performance of the test server by hashing the particular content request with a result of said hashing selecting the test server from the plurality of test servers for receiving the particular content request.