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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 2010
Filed:
Feb. 24, 2003
James W. O'toole, Jr., Somerville, MA (US);
William Mark Townsley, Nashville, TN (US);
James W. O'Toole, Jr., Somerville, MA (US);
William Mark Townsley, Nashville, TN (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A client device establishes a first tunnel connection or tunnel, through a public network, with a first gateway of a private network and establishes, through the tunnel connection, a data connection with a destination device within the private network. The first gateway monitors or analyzes the geographic locations of the gateways associated with the private network relative to geographic location of the destination device associated with the data connection. Based upon such the monitoring, the first gateway transmits information to the client device relating to establishment of a second tunnel connection or tunnel with a second gateway of the private network. The client device establishes the second tunnel connection with the second gateway and establishes a data connection with the destination device through the second gateway. By establishing the second tunnel connection with the second gateway, the client device utilizes the bandwidth of the public network to exchange data with the destination device, thereby decreasing data transmission costs to the private network and decreasing private network latency.