Patent ID: 8762535

Claim:
A method for managing traffic in a content delivery network (CDN), comprising: monitoring, with a network device, a number of requests being processed by a plurality of servers in a first node in said CDN; receiving a request at the network device in the first node, wherein the request is serviceable by at least one of the first node and a second node; first determining, with the network device, whether the first node has capacity to service the request; second determining which server amongst the plurality of servers in the first node will receive the request if the first node is determined to have the capacity to service the request; and redirecting, with the network device, the request to the second node if the first node is determined not to have a capacity to service the request as decided in the first determination, wherein the first node and the second node share a same anycast IP address, wherein said second determination is performed by the network device.