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

Claim 0:
1. A classification and forwarding node comprising:
one or more processors; and
one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the classification and forwarding node to perform operations comprising:
receiving, from a first headend node associated with a first cloud-delivered ingress service, a first data packet encapsulated according to a first encapsulation protocol that is supported by the classification and forwarding node;
modifying a header of the first data packet to include identification metadata;
determining 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;
determining 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.