Described herein is a system and method for testing a computing device, such as a server, to minimize network impact. A computing device that is new or needs to be evaluated, such as an edge server, in a content delivery network may be determined and a sibling edge server which shares a common characteristic with the edge server may be selected. Requests received on the sibling edge server may be collected and filtered to determine a subset of the requests. The subset of the requests are transmitted to the edge server for processing and evaluation.

Disclosed are various embodiments for receiving, via a network, a request from a client to establish a network tunnel over the network. A credential is received from the client in order to establish the network tunnel. The client is authenticated based upon the credential. The client negotiates, via the network, to establish the network tunnel.

Systems and methods are provided for automatic network scaling for data centers. One of the methods comprises storing respective configurations of a plurality of interconnectors, wherein each interconnector is in communication with a respective plurality of servers in a respective rack and a respective top-of-rack switch, and wherein each configuration describes connections between the respective servers and the respective top-of-rack switch, determining a traffic load of each interconnector, and transferring traffic between interconnectors having compatible configurations according to the traffic loads.

Customer premise equipment for receiving tunneled commands from a device management platform to execute. A remote management client is configured to establish a tunneled connection with a device management platform, to receive an encrypted command from the device management platform via the tunneled connection, and to decrypt the encrypted command to generate an unencrypted command. A command interface is configured to receive the unencrypted command from the remote management client, and to execute the command.

Disclosed are various embodiments for receiving, via a network, a request from a client to establish a network tunnel over the network. A credential is received from the client in order to establish the network tunnel. The client is authenticated based upon the credential. The client negotiates, via the network, to establish the network tunnel.

A method is provided of managing a non-static collection of machines. A first client machine runs a first communication protocol. The non-static collection of machines includes a first linear communication orbit, the first linear communication orbit comprising a sequence of machines that run the first communication protocol, and a second linear communication orbit, the second linear communication orbit comprising a sequence of machines that run a second communication protocol distinct from the first communication protocol. The first client machine receives an instruction from a server to install the second communication protocol, installs the second communication protocol, and then submits a registration request to the server. The first client machine receives, from the server, contact information of a list of potential neighbors. The first client machine then, proactively constructs and maintains a respective local segment of the second linear communication orbit.

A communication system includes multiple servers each functioning as an active system or a standby system and a relay device that relays communication between a server of the active system and one or more client terminals operated by clients. Each of the servers includes a priority level determining unit that determines a priority level of each of the clients, a virtual port creating unit that creates, in the server, a virtual port corresponding to a virtual LAN assigned to each of the client terminals, and a communication processing unit (CPU) that instructs the relay device to change a destination of communication performed between the client terminal and the server to the virtual port. The CPU gives an instruction of change of the destination of the communication in order of highest to lowest priority level of the client when a malfunction occurs in another server of the active system.

A system configured to support software-defined networking, SDN, is described. The system comprises: a management client entity (310); main processing device (220, 320) operably connected to the management client entity (310) and arranged to communicate with the management client entity (310) using a first SDN protocol; a target server (330) running on a constrained device (228, 329) operably connected to the main processing device (220, 320) and arranged to communicate with the main processing device (320) using a second SDN protocol (242) that is different to the first SDN protocol. The main processing device (220, 320) comprises a data store (370) configured to perform as an interface between the first SDN protocol and the second SDN protocol (242).

Disclosed are various embodiments for receiving, via a network, a request from a client to establish a network tunnel over the network. A credential is received from the client in order to establish the network tunnel. The client is authenticated based upon the credential. The client negotiates, via the network, to establish the network tunnel.

The present disclosure provides a method and a system for managing radio unit or Open-Radio Unit (O-RU) (116) failure. The method manages the O-RU failure through a plurality of NETCONF (Network Configuration Protocol) clients by a management-plane (M-Plane) in an open radio access network (100). The method includes establishing the M-Plane between the O-RU and the plurality of NETCONF clients available with each of an Open-Distributed Unit (O-DU) (114) and a Service Management and Orchestration (SMO) framework (102) and detecting failure by the plurality of NETCONF clients in the connection between the O-RU and the plurality of NETCONF clients within a session at a predefined time duration. Lastly, the method includes switching the connection from a hybrid model to a hierarchical model in case of the failure with the hybrid model, whereby switching the connection ensures returning to the hybrid model without reset when the SMO framework connection is back.