Patent ID: 7536720

Claim:
A method of securely accelerating customer premises equipment based virtual private network transmissions over a carrier network comprising the steps of: establishing an encrypted acceleration tunnel between a VPN acceleration client and a VPN acceleration server in response to a VPN acceleration client request for information, the encrypted acceleration tunnel traversing a wireless network; transmitting said VPN acceleration client's address and required data information to said VPN acceleration server over said encrypted acceleration tunnel; establishing a VPN tunnel between said VPN acceleration server and a VPN switch, said VPN switch accessing a plurality of enterprise content servers, said plurality of enterprise content servers providing said required data information transmitted, wherein said encrypted acceleration tunnel and said VPN acceleration server utilize the same network layer in a standard OSI model; communicating required data responding to said required data information from one of said plurality of enterprise content servers to said VPN switch; transmitting said required data from said VPN switch to said VPN acceleration server over said VPN tunnel; accelerating and encrypting said required data using wireless communication performance optimization by said VPN acceleration server; transmitting said required data to said VPN acceleration client; and decrypting said required data in response to said VPN acceleration client receiving said required data.