Inventors:
Vincent A. Fuller - Palo Alto CA, US
Michael Slocombe - Acton MA, US
Matthew Miller - Plainville MA, US
Assignee:
Level 3 Communications LLC - Broomfield CO
International Classification:
H04J 3/08
Abstract:
A system and method of distributing traffic across a computer network is provided using a relay apparatus. A relay apparatus includes an interface to a communication network, a data store, and a processor. The data store includes data elements associating a first network address of a server to a second network address of the server. The processor is configured to receive a request corresponding to a data element in the data store, use the data element to determine a corresponding server, and forward the request to the server in a manner such that any response to the forwarded request is sent to the relay apparatus.