Patent ID: 9300598
Filing Date: 2016-03-29
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A system comprising: a first transaction accelerator operatively connected to a Wide Area Network (WAN), the transaction accelerator to service a first plurality of Local Area Networks (LANs); and a second transaction accelerator operatively connected to the WAN and to the first transaction accelerator via the WAN, the second transaction accelerator to service a second plurality of LANs and the first transaction accelerator, wherein each of the first transaction accelerator and the second transaction accelerator comprises a WAN optimization component and a provider edge (PE) router, the WAN optimization component configured to perform at least one optimization operation on data traffic received from a LAN via the PE router prior to routing the optimized data traffic into the WAN via the PE router, the PE router configured to attach a VLAN header including a VLAN ID to a data packet of the data traffic before sending the data packet to the WAN optimization component.