Abstract:
A device and method are provided to provide multi-exit firewall capabilities for cloud server or cloud service deployments without prior knowledge of reachability information of a client device where the client device may belong to one of several networks accessing the cloud server or cloud service. The reachability information may be derived based on flow of data to and from the client device in response to a data transfer initiation request. A firewall connection table may be updated to record routability to the client device comprising the derived reachability information. The recorded reachability information in the connection table may be used for the data transfer with the client device instead of a default route in a routing table.
Abstract:
In one embodiment, a cloud network provides cloud services to the one or more clients, where data usage of each client is monitored on a per client basis. If the data usage of any client is above a first predetermined threshold, then a WAN optimization platform is automatically implemented within the cloud network for the client having the data usage determined to be above the first predetermined threshold.