Described herein are various embodiments of decentralized media distribution systems, devices and methods over a scalable local network. Embodiments relate to scalable media distribution amongst media data components comprising at least one media acquisition unit for acquiring source media data, and at least one media presentation unit for processing source media data. Embodiments may comprise two or more transceiver units comprising: at least two source media signal ports for receiving source media signals and transmitting source media signals from and to one of the media presentation units; a signal converter operable to packetize source media signals for communication over said packetized communications network, and to convert packetized network media signals to source media signals for communicating to the media presentation units; and a packetized network media data transceiver operable to multicast and receive packetized network media signals over a packetized communications network to and from any other transceiver unit.

A packet header information obtaining method. The method includes: obtaining, by a communications device, a first packet, where the first packet includes a plurality of extension packet headers; and obtaining an extension header self-describing option from the first packet, where the extension header self-describing option is used to indicate information about the plurality of extension packet headers. Therefore, the communications device obtains, based on the extension header self-describing option in the first packet, a first extension packet header included in the plurality of extension packet headers. Packet header information of the extension packet header in the first packet can be obtained by using the extension header self-describing option, and the first extension packet header that needs to be parsed can be directly located from the first packet by using the obtained packet header information.

A client application establishes a connection between the client application and an origin server over one or more networks. The application generates a request to establish a secure session with the origin server over the connection. The request includes information, in a header of the request, that flags traffic sent during the secure session to a network of the one or more networks as subject to one or more optimizations performed by the network. Subsequent to establishing the secure session, the application encrypts the traffic in accordance with the secure session and sends the traffic to the origin server over the connection, subject to the one or more optimizations. The infrastructure service applies the one or more optimizations to the traffic as it passes through the edge network to the origin server.

A client application establishes a connection between the client application and an origin server over one or more networks. The application generates a request to establish a secure session with the origin server over the connection. The request includes information, in a header of the request, that flags traffic sent during the secure session to a network of the one or more networks as subject to one or more optimizations performed by the network. Subsequent to establishing the secure session, the application encrypts the traffic in accordance with the secure session and sends the traffic to the origin server over the connection, subject to the one or more optimizations. The infrastructure service applies the one or more optimizations to the traffic as it passes through the edge network to the origin server.

A system includes a hypervisor, a virtual machine (VM), and a host system. The VM includes a kernel and an application and the VM is in communication with the hypervisor. The host system includes a memory and one or more processors, where the one or more processors are in communication with the memory. The host system hosts the VM and the hypervisor. The one or more processors is configured to perform creating, via the kernel, a first socket accessible to the application. A second socket in communication with an endpoint is created at the host system. A virtual communication channel between the hypervisor and the kernel of the VM connects the first socket to the hypervisor. The hypervisor is configured to transmit inputs/outputs (I/Os) received from the application through the virtual channel to the endpoint via the second socket.

A plurality of virtual internet protocol addresses for a first single network interface card of a node of a storage cluster are provided to a client. A separate connection is established between the client and the node for each of the plurality of virtual internet protocol addresses. The separate connections are utilized together in parallel to transfer data between the client and the node.

Methods and apparatus for emerging use case support in user space networking architectures. In one embodiment, an apparatus configured to segregate packet data based on a packet type is disclosed. The exemplary embodiment provides a custom data type registry that enables the definition, addition, removal, modification, and/or prioritization of custom packet processing rules. Variants of the registry may support custom ethertype packets, network packets, and/or transport packets. In another embodiment, mechanisms for enabling an intermediary packet processing stage are described. Intermediary packet processing may enable user space system extensions that support e.g., packet filtering, packet modification, and/or other forms of packet processing.

A method for monitoring message packets that are exchanged between at least two control units. The message packets are concatenated in a data stream and each have an identifier, a payload, and a length specification of the payload described by a data item of predefined word size. The at least two control units are connected by a distributor. The distributor is connected by a first distributor port to a first of the at least two control units, is connected by a second distributor port to a second of the at least two control units, and is connected by a third distributor port to a computer system. The data stream flows through the first and distributor port for communication between the first node and the second node. The computer system has a memory, and information on the respective identifiers of the message packets is stored in the memory.

A method for monitoring message packets that are exchanged between at least two control units. The message packets are concatenated in a data stream and each have an identifier, a payload, and a length specification of the payload described by a data item of predefined word size. The at least two control units are connected by a distributor. The distributor is connected by a first distributor port to a first of the at least two control units, is connected by a second distributor port to a second of the at least two control units, and is connected by a third distributor port to a computer system. The data stream flows through the first and distributor port for communication between the first node and the second node. The computer system has a memory, and information on the respective identifiers of the message packets is stored in the memory.

Disclosed herein is a computing device. The computing device may include a central processing unit (CPU) for controlling operation of a system, a Compute Express Link (CXL) storage device connected with the CPU, a flexible bus for connecting the CPU with the CXL storage device, and a TCP/IP Offload Engine (TOE) provided between the flexible bus and the CXL storage device.