Synthetic transaction to determine centroid for cloud hosting

A communication system, comprising:

• an initial data center of a plurality of data centers to initially host a conference call having participants on the conference call that include a first plurality of participants, a selection of the initial data center being based at least in part on performance metrics associated with synthetic transmissions between each of the first plurality of participants and each of a first plurality of data centers of the plurality of data centers;
• and,
• a handoff system to select an identified data center from a second plurality of data centers of the plurality of data centers based at least in part on performance metrics associated with synthetic transmissions between each of the first plurality of participants and the identified data center, the identified data center to host the conference call.

A non-transitory computer readable medium having instructions stored thereon for selecting a data center to host a conference call that, when executed by a computer, at least instruct the computer to:

• configure a plurality of data centers to send, between a first plurality of participants and the plurality of data centers, synthetic transactions to measure at least one performance metric associated with transmissions between each of the first plurality of participants and each of the plurality of data centers;
• and,
• based on the at least one performance metric associated with transmissions between each of the first plurality of participants and each of the plurality of data centers, select an initial data center to host a conference call having participants on the conference call that include the first plurality of participants.