Methods and apparatuses for detecting timestamp discontinuities and video resolution discontinuities within a packet stream and marking locations of the detected discontinuities within the packet stream are described. Prior to transmission of the packet stream, an electronic device may perform timestamp discontinuity detection by acquiring a sequence of packets to be transmitted, identifying a first timestamp associated with an earliest packet within the sequence of packets, identifying a second timestamp associated with a latest packet within the sequence of packets, determining a timestamp time difference between the first timestamp and the second timestamp, determining a maximum chunk time difference based on a data rate at which the sequence of packets were encoded and a data size of the encoded packets, and detecting that a timestamp discontinuity exists within the sequence of packets if the timestamp time difference is greater than the maximum chunk time difference.

This application provides network device capacity expansion methods and devices. One method includes: obtaining network performance data of a target network device, determining a state of the target network device based on the network performance data of the target network device, and determining, based on the state of the target network device, whether to perform capacity expansion for the target network device. In the foregoing technical solution, whether a capacity expansion operation needs to be performed on a network device can be determined in a timely manner based on a state of the network device.

Systems and methods for reducing bandwidth loss in IPv6 packet switching networks. A network appliance is configured to sample IPv6 packets and mirror sampled packets to a working memory or memory structure, such as a queue. A transport layer payload is extracted from each sampled packet and a transport layer checksum validation operation is performed. Upon detecting an error, the network appliance updates a dropped packet rate or other metric.

Systems and methods for reducing bandwidth loss in IPv6 packet switching networks. A network appliance is configured to sample IPv6 packets and mirror sampled packets to a working memory or memory structure, such as a queue. A transport layer payload is extracted from each sampled packet and a transport layer checksum validation operation is performed. Upon detecting an error, the network appliance updates a dropped packet rate or other metric.

A packet processing method, a network node, and a system includes obtaining, by a first network node, a first packet that includes a segment list, where the segment list includes a segment identifier of a network node on a path used to forward the first packet, obtaining, by the first network node, a segment identifier of a second network node from the segment list, where the second network node is a next-hop segment node of the first network node on the path, replacing, by the first network node, a destination address of the first packet with the segment identifier of the second network node, and adding a network performance parameter of the first network node to the segment list to generate a second packet, and sending, by the first network node, the second packet to the second network node.

The field of the disclosure is the transfer of digital data, particularly multimedia data, from a source to a user of that data using multiple data carrying paths/links/channels.

The field of the disclosure is the transfer of digital data, particularly multimedia data, from a source to a user of that data using multiple data carrying paths/links/channels.

Embodiments described herein provide an optimal communication channel recommendation engine by assessing whether the environment the customer is situated in is conducive to the channel selected by the customer. Specifically, the optimal channel recommendation engine obtains data artifacts indicative of ambient noise, motion, customer sentiment, network quality, customer focus, and/or the like to assess quality of the environment and recommend an optimal channel for the communication between the customer and the call agent. With the recommendation to switch to a different channel, the client component resumes communication with the new channel and retains the context of the interaction.

In one embodiment, a device obtains path metrics for a network path used to convey application traffic for an online application. The device discretizes the path metrics into labeled states. The device generates state transition visualization data that represents the labeled states as nodes and transitions between the labeled states as edges connecting the nodes. The device provides the state transition visualization data for display.

The present disclosure provides an in-situ flow detection method and an electronic device. In the present disclosure, a BFIR in the G-BIER domain and an intermediate BFR between the BFIR and a BFER may transmit in situ flow detection information used for detecting network quality currently along with a G-BIER service packet, which realizes in-situ flow detection based on G-BIER service packet; at the same time, the BFIR in the G-BIER domain, the intermediate BFR and the BFER in the G-BIER domain may also report detection data used for detecting network quality currently to an analyzer which finally may detect network quality based on the detection data reported by the BFIR and the BFER in the G-BIER domain and the intermediate BFR between the BFIR and the BFER.