Abstract: Embodiments relate generally to computer hardware, computer software, methods for session data management. More specifically, disclosed are systems, components, and methods to cause a session capture agent to generate a session capture, cause a session processor to generate individual session segments from the session capture, cause a session search engine to locate one or more session segments using a session query process, and retrieve the one or more session segments.

Abstract: An edge network device controls the quality-of-service of incoming network traffic flows by limiting the bandwidth of incoming network traffic flows to create a network traffic bottleneck at the edge network device. The bottleneck ensures that this edge network device may control the quality-of-service of incoming network traffic flows. During a slow-start phase of a network traffic flow, the edge network device adds phantom network packets to a scheduler queue in addition to the actual packets of the network traffic flow. Phantom packets occupy transmission slots during packet scheduling and are discarded when selected for transmission. This limits the rate that actual packets are received and acknowledged by the destination knowledge, thereby preventing the network traffic flow source from increasing the flow bandwidth above the limit of the inbound network connection.

Abstract: An edge network device controls the quality-of-service of incoming network traffic flows by limiting the bandwidth of incoming network traffic flows. To ensure that incoming network traffic classes quickly converge to the desired bandwidth allocations, the maximum bandwidth allocation to each network traffic class is dynamically varied based on current overall usage. The maximum bandwidth allocated to each traffic class at any given moment is the sum of its minimum guaranteed bandwidth and a portion of the available excess bandwidth. Each traffic class' portion of the excess bandwidth is proportional to the ratio between its minimum guaranteed bandwidth and the sum of all traffic classes' minimum guaranteed bandwidths. Phantom network packets equivalent to the difference between each traffic class' allocated and actual bandwidth may be added to its scheduling queue to implement this dynamic variation.