摘要 |
An approach for providing integrated firewall and network acceleration functions is disclosed. An integrated firewall and network accelerator filters packets received from a host, according to a security policy, to establish a connection for accelerating the filtered packets over a network (e.g., satellite network). The method further includes selectively triggering establishment of a tunnel (e.g., Virtual Private Network (VPN) tunnel) over the established connection, wherein the filtered packets are encrypted through the tunnel.
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