Patent ID: 8914480

Claim:
A method of managing network traffic over a network connection between a client and a server, the network connection including a plurality of segments, the method comprising the steps of: intercepting a client packet transmission from the client addressed to the server at a client interconnect point, the client interconnect point and the client defining a first segment of the plurality of segments; the first segment using a first communication protocol; the client interconnect point being located before a second segment of the plurality of segments, the client interconnect point accessing packets in the client packet transmission; replacing the packets in the client packet transmission into a second communication protocol at the client interconnect point; forwarding the client packet transmission from the client interconnect point through the second segment to a server interconnect point using the second communication protocol, the server interconnect point and the server defining a third segment of the plurality of segments; replacing the packets in the client packet transmission into the first communication protocol at the server interconnect point; and transmitting the client packet transmission from the server interconnect point to the server through the third segment using the first communication protocol; wherein the client interconnect point includes a terminator server having a terminator server address; wherein the server interconnect point includes a regenerator client having a regenerator client address; wherein the client packet transmission comprise data packets, the data packets having a source address identifying the client and a destination address identifying the server; wherein the step of intercepting a client packet transmission comprises the step of: re-addressing at the client interconnect point the data packets resulting in the destination address being the terminator server address.