Patent ID: 11888740
Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 13:
14. A method comprising:
receiving, at a first classification and forwarding node of a first networked computing environment and from a second classification and forwarding node of a second networked computing environment, a first data packet encapsulated according to a first encapsulation protocol that is supported by the first classification and forwarding node and the second classification and forwarding node;
determining, by the first classification and forwarding node, that the first data packet is to be sent to a first cloud-delivered security service from among a group of cloud-delivered security services associated with the first networked computing environment;
determining, by the first classification and forwarding node, whether the first encapsulation protocol is supported by the first cloud-delivered security service;
based at least in part on determining that the first cloud-delivered security service supports a second encapsulation protocol different than the first encapsulation protocol:
encapsulating the first data packet according to the second encapsulation protocol; and
sending the first data packet to the first cloud-delivered security service.