Inventors:
F. Thomson Leighton - Newtonville MA, US
Daniel M. Lewin - Charlestown MA, US
Ravi Sundaram - Cambridge MA, US
Rizwan S. Dhanidina - Boston MA, US
Robert Kleinberg - Somerville MA, US
Matthew Levine - Somerville MA, US
Adrian M. Soviani - Cambridge MA, US
Bruce Maggs - Pittsburgh PA, US
Hariharan Shankar Rahul - Cambridge MA, US
Srikanth Thirumalai - Needham MA, US
Jay Gunvantrai Parikh - Redwood City CA, US
Yoav O. Yerushalmi - La Jolla CA, US
Assignee:
Akamai Technologies, Inc. - Cambridge MA
International Classification:
G06F 15/173
Abstract:
The invention is an intelligent traffic redirection system that does global load balancing. It can be used in any situation where an end-user requires access to a replicated resource. The method directs end-users to the appropriate replica so that the route to the replica is good from a network standpoint and the replica is not overloaded. The technique preferably uses a Domain Name Service (DNS) to provide IP addresses for the appropriate replica. The most common use is to direct traffic to a mirrored web site.