Gigabit Determination of Available Bandwidth Between Peers

摘要

A system includes a speed service architecture (SSA) capable of supporting high throughput connectivity between a server and client. The SSA may allow for a bandwidth measurement for a connection between the server and client. In some cases, the SSA may offload the processing of the connectivity measurement resulting in little or no load on processing devices external to the SSA, for example, the host processors of the client and/or server. The SSA may use a stream generator to generate a test stream for transmission over the connection. The test stream may be received and analyzed by a stream analyzer. The stream analyzer may then report the measurement results to the client, server, or other device.

主权项

1. A system comprising:
a communication interface configured to:
communicate with a test control server; andcommunicate with a data server; and control circuitry configured to:
establish a control connection with the test control server and request a bandwidth test; andresponsive to the request for the bandwidth test, receive a data server address from the test control server;establish a test connection with the data server at the data server address; andinitiate the bandwidth test between the system and the data server.