Patent ID: 8254539

Claim:
A device comprising: a traffic load profile including information for regulating rates of routing calls; and a controller to: access the traffic load profile, receive a number of network calls from a traffic load producer, the number of network calls being received during a particular time period, determine, based on the traffic load profile, a percentage of the number of network calls to be routed to a system under test during the particular time period, route only the determined percentage of the number of network calls, received from the traffic load producer during the particular time period, to the system under test, and assign, based on the traffic load profile, a portion of the percentage of the number of received network calls to each service type, of a number of service types, associated with the system under test, the traffic load profile indicating, for each of the number of service types, percentages of the assigned portion of the percentage of the network calls to be routed by the controller at specific times during the particular time period, and when routing only the determined percentage of the number of network calls, the controller routing the assigned portion of the number of received network calls to each service type, of the number of service types, associated with the system under test.