Techniques for NAT-based steering of traffic in cloud-based networks. The techniques may include establishing, by a frontend node of a network, a connection with a client device. The frontend node may receive, via the connection, a packet including an indication of an identity of a service hosted on a backend node of the network. Based at least in part on the indication, the frontend node may establish a second connection with the backend node. Additionally, the frontend node may store a mapping indicating that packets received from the client device are to be sent to the backend node. The techniques may also include receiving another packet at the frontend node or another frontend node of the network. Based at least in part on the mapping, the frontend node or other frontend node may alter one or more network addresses of the other packet and forward it to the backend node.

Techniques for NAT-based steering of traffic in cloud-based networks. The techniques may include establishing, by a frontend node of a network, a connection with a client device. The frontend node may receive, via the connection, a packet including an indication of an identity of a service hosted on a backend node of the network. Based at least in part on the indication, the frontend node may establish a second connection with the backend node. Additionally, the frontend node may store a mapping indicating that packets received from the client device are to be sent to the backend node. The techniques may also include receiving another packet at the frontend node or another frontend node of the network. Based at least in part on the mapping, the frontend node or other frontend node may alter one or more network addresses of the other packet and forward it to the backend node.

A method and system for delivering content are disclosed. A media stream including media data is received from a content provider at a content delivery network (CDN) server. The CDN server creates a uniform protocol data unit (PDU) comprising the media data. A plurality of requests to receive the uniform PDU are received at the CDN server from a plurality of devices is received at a CDN server. Each device is associated with a unique IP address. The CDN server communicates the uniform PDU over a network to the plurality of devices using the unique IP address for each of the plurality of devices.

A method and system for delivering content are disclosed. A media stream including media data is received from a content provider at a content delivery network (CDN) server. The CDN server creates a uniform protocol data unit (PDU) comprising the media data. A plurality of requests to receive the uniform PDU are received at the CDN server from a plurality of devices is received at a CDN server. Each device is associated with a unique IP address. The CDN server communicates the uniform PDU over a network to the plurality of devices using the unique IP address for each of the plurality of devices.

The present disclosure discloses an operation management method for a network device without address information, which includes: recognizing an address of a front-end terminal; constructing a standard UDP/TCP data packet according to the address and session state information; and sending the standard UDP/TCP data packet. In another aspect, a network device without address information is claimed, which includes: a recognizing module configured to recognize an address of a front-end terminal; a data packet generating module configured to construct a standard UDP/TCP data packet according to the address and session state information; and a sending module configured to send the standard UDP/TCP data packet. The method and device described above can reduce the workload of network renovation while minimizing renovation costs, thereby maximizing cost effectiveness. Thus, any technical breakthrough in this direction is regarded as the direction of development.

The present disclosure discloses an operation management method for a network device without address information, which includes: recognizing an address of a front-end terminal; constructing a standard UDP/TCP data packet according to the address and session state information; and sending the standard UDP/TCP data packet. In another aspect, a network device without address information is claimed, which includes: a recognizing module configured to recognize an address of a front-end terminal; a data packet generating module configured to construct a standard UDP/TCP data packet according to the address and session state information; and a sending module configured to send the standard UDP/TCP data packet. The method and device described above can reduce the workload of network renovation while minimizing renovation costs, thereby maximizing cost effectiveness. Thus, any technical breakthrough in this direction is regarded as the direction of development.

An HTTP connection between a client computing device and an application is established through a reverse proxy. A response to the client computing device includes a payload instructing initiation of a non-HTTP connection (e.g., TCP, UDP). The response is modified to replace references to an original port with a dynamic port allocated to the non-HTTP connection and a temporary ACL entry is created. A subsequent connection request addressed to the dynamic port is authorized per the ACL, modified to replace the dynamic port with the original port, and forwarded to the application. Subsequent packets for the non-HTTP connection have port numbers translated between the original and dynamic ports.

A connection analyzer at a server information handling system analyzes virtual desktop requests from client information handling systems to prioritize available virtual desktop display protocols for responding to the requests based upon the client type and network interface. The virtual desktop is established by reference to a priority list of virtual desktop display protocols available for sending virtual desktops from a server information handling system.

A connection analyzer at a server information handling system analyzes virtual desktop requests from client information handling systems to prioritize available virtual desktop display protocols for responding to the requests based upon the client type and network interface. The virtual desktop is established by reference to a priority list of virtual desktop display protocols available for sending virtual desktops from a server information handling system.

Methods and systems are disclosed for network communication. A computing device may store status information. The status information may be communicated using a first protocol. The status information may indicate data is available. The data may be communicated using a second protocol.