A computer system for encapsulating a packet between a customer premise for delivery to customer resources within a public cloud data center. The computer system comprises a shim gateway. The shim gateway comprises a plurality of customer specific shim components. The shim gateway is configured to receive a packet from a customer premise. The packet has a VLAN tag. The packet identifies a tenant within a designated virtual network for the customer. The designated virtual network is within the public cloud data center. The shim gateway is further configured to encapsulate the packet into an encapsulated packet. Encapsulation includes mapping the VLAN tag to a destination network address of a tenant gateway for the customer. The tenant gateway is in the designated virtual network. The shim gateway is further configured to forward the encapsulated packet to the tenant gateway in the designated virtual network for delivery to the identified tenant.
申请公布号
EP2786536(A4)
申请公布日期
2015.08.19
申请号
EP20120853513
申请日期
2012.11.26
申请人
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
发明人
KIM, CHANGHOON;RAMAKRISHNAN, VIJAYAN;GREENBERG, ALBERT;MACHADO, MONIKA;SINGH GILL, VIJAY P.;RANGEGOWDA, DHARSHAN