Patent ID: 7873060
Filing Date: 2011-01-18
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: establishing both a shared connection-oriented tunnel and a shared connectionless tunnel between a first wide area network (WAN) acceleration device and a second WAN acceleration device, the shared connection-oriented tunnel operable to convey connection-oriented traffic flow, but not connectionless traffic flow, between the first WAN acceleration device and the second WAN acceleration device and the shared connectionless tunnel operable to convey connectionless traffic flow, but not connection-oriented traffic flow, between the first WAN acceleration device and the second WAN acceleration device, the first WAN acceleration device interposed between a public network and a first local area network (LAN) and the second WAN acceleration device interposed between a second LAN and the public network; and securely accelerating network traffic exchanged between the first LAN and the second LAN by (i) multiplexing a plurality of data communication sessions between the first LAN and the second LAN onto the shared connection-oriented tunnel and the shared connectionless tunnel, (ii) performing application acceleration on one or more connection-oriented traffic flows of the plurality of data communication sessions and performing one or more of transport acceleration and network acceleration on the one or more connection-oriented traffic flows and on one or more connectionless traffic flows of the plurality of data communication sessions and (iii) performing one or more security functions on the one or more connection-oriented traffic flows.