A system includes a server to generate a real-time stream of audio packets and a client device to decode and playback the audio content of the stream. The client device includes a network interface configured to receive a stream of audio packets via a network and a buffer configured to temporarily buffer a subset of audio packets of the stream. The client device further includes an audio decoder having an input to receive audio packets from the buffer and an output to provide corresponding segments of a decoded audio data stream. The client device also includes a stream monitoring module configured to provide an audio packet of the subset in the buffer which was previously decoded by the decoder to the input of the decoder again for a repeated decoding in place of a decoding of an audio packet that is lost or late.

The presently disclosed subject matter aims to a system and method directed to provide a remote session user experience analysis. The system and method includes Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) server comprising a processing circuitry configured to: obtain connection information from a Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) client, remote from the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) server, associated with a connection between the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) client and a networking device directly communicating with the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) client; and, generate, based on the connection information, a user experience score indicative of the quality of the connection during the remote session.

Systems and methods include connecting to and authenticating a plurality of user devices; utilizing a plurality of RESTful (Representational State Transfer web service) endpoints to communicate with the plurality of user devices; providing any of policy and configuration to the plurality of user devices utilizing version number via a RESTful endpoint; caching the any of policy and configuration for each device of the plurality of user devices; and receiving metrics based on measurements at the plurality of user devices according to corresponding policy and configuration, via a RESTful endpoint.

The present invention provides a method for controlling a remote service access path including the steps of: receiving a datagram sent by any terminal intending to access the remote service; requesting a node management server to determine an optimal gateway server as an optimal node for transferring the datagram, the optimal gateway server being selected from a number of gateway servers provided for a distributed deployment architecture established for a server cluster of the remote service; testing transmission quality of a number of accessed data connections to the optimal gateway server, and determining an optimal data connection having optimal transmission quality; and invoking the optimal data connection to send a datagram after tunnel encapsulation thereof, and the optimal gateway server forwarding the datagram to a business server connected to the optimal gateway server and belonging to the server cluster.

The present invention provides a method for controlling a remote service access path including the steps of: receiving a datagram sent by any terminal intending to access the remote service; requesting a node management server to determine an optimal gateway server as an optimal node for transferring the datagram, the optimal gateway server being selected from a number of gateway servers provided for a distributed deployment architecture established for a server cluster of the remote service; testing transmission quality of a number of accessed data connections to the optimal gateway server, and determining an optimal data connection having optimal transmission quality; and invoking the optimal data connection to send a datagram after tunnel encapsulation thereof, and the optimal gateway server forwarding the datagram to a business server connected to the optimal gateway server and belonging to the server cluster.

Various embodiments provide an example method in which a first measurement packet can be generated. The first measurement packet includes link resource indication information, and the link resource indication information in the first measurement packet is configured to indicate each node on a forwarding path of the first measurement packet to perform local link resource measurement. In those embodiment, the first measurement packet can be sent to a next device on the forwarding path, where the first measurement packet includes local link resource information measured by the first device. Still in those embodiments, until the first measurement packet is forwarded to a third device by each node on the forwarding path of the first measurement packet, the third device receives the first measurement packets sent on different forwarding paths, and determines a path meeting the link resource indication information.

Various embodiments provide an example method in which a first measurement packet can be generated. The first measurement packet includes link resource indication information, and the link resource indication information in the first measurement packet is configured to indicate each node on a forwarding path of the first measurement packet to perform local link resource measurement. In those embodiment, the first measurement packet can be sent to a next device on the forwarding path, where the first measurement packet includes local link resource information measured by the first device. Still in those embodiments, until the first measurement packet is forwarded to a third device by each node on the forwarding path of the first measurement packet, the third device receives the first measurement packets sent on different forwarding paths, and determines a path meeting the link resource indication information.

In some aspects, the disclosure is directed to methods and systems for monitoring and isolating issues over physical layer (layer 1) paths using Flexible Ethernet (FlexE) protocols via client-based operations, administration, and maintenance (OAM) management. Each node within a FlexE communications path may dynamically insert, extract, and/or replace OAM messages from FlexE data streams as needed to ensure that the OAM messages may be provided unimpeded to a destination (e.g. monitoring server or other device), as well as inserting additional monitoring data (e.g. bit error rates, delay measurements, loss measurements, threshold crossing alerts, or other such monitoring notifications or data) for intermediary nodes.

In some aspects, the disclosure is directed to methods and systems for monitoring and isolating issues over physical layer (layer 1) paths using Flexible Ethernet (FlexE) protocols via client-based operations, administration, and maintenance (OAM) management. Each node within a FlexE communications path may dynamically insert, extract, and/or replace OAM messages from FlexE data streams as needed to ensure that the OAM messages may be provided unimpeded to a destination (e.g. monitoring server or other device), as well as inserting additional monitoring data (e.g. bit error rates, delay measurements, loss measurements, threshold crossing alerts, or other such monitoring notifications or data) for intermediary nodes.

Usually agents probe other agents across the network to determine health of a network. However, it is also useful for agents to probe themselves. Such a test probe is off-network in that it does not leave a server rack. The off-network probes can be used to detect noisy agents, which can be excluded from further consideration in evaluating overall network quality. The off-network probing of the agents can be done in a loopback interface of the host device or via a top-of-rack switch to another distinct agent in the rack.