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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 03, 2015
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Fabio Maino, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Vina Ermagan, Marina Del Rey, CA (US);
Christopher Spain, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a first device in a network receives application traffic sent from a source device towards a destination address. The first device sends the application traffic to a traffic identification service. The first device receives an instruction to establish a network tunnel to send the application traffic from the source device towards the destination address. The instruction is based on a classification of the application traffic by the traffic identification service. The first device establishes the network tunnel to send the application traffic from the source device towards the destination address.