CPC H04L 12/4633 (2013.01) [H04L 2101/618 (2022.05)] | 14 Claims |
1. A method in a distributed cloud computing network that includes a plurality of computing devices, the method comprising:
receiving a first IP packet at a first one of the plurality of computing devices of a first data center, wherein the received first IP packet is destined to a first origin server of a first origin network, wherein the received first IP packet has destination IP address, and wherein the first computing device does not have a private network interconnect (PNI) connection with the first origin network;
processing the received first IP packet at the first computing device;
determining that a second data center has the PNI connection with the first origin network;
encapsulating the processed first IP packet inside a first outer packet to generate a first encapsulated packet that uses IP as a transport protocol;
transmitting the first encapsulated packet from the first data center to the second data center that has the PNI connection with the first origin network;
processing, at a second one of the plurality of computing devices of the second data center, the first encapsulated packet including decapsulating the first encapsulated packet to reveal the first IP packet; and
transmitting the first IP packet to the first origin server of the first origin network over the PNI connection.
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