Technologies for network packet processing between cloud and telecommunications networks

One or more non-transitory machine-readable storage media comprising a plurality of instructions stored thereon that, in response to being executed by communication circuitry of a network computing device, cause the communication circuitry to:

• receive a network packet from a source computing device via a first network;
• identify a virtual network function (VNF) instance based on the received network packet;
• perform an application layer encapsulation of at least a portion of data of the received network packet as a parameter of a remote procedure call (RPC) associated with the VNF instance;
• invoke the identified VNF instance using an application programming interface (API) call corresponding to the RPC that includes the RPC parameter;
• receive an RPC call response from the invoked VNF instance, wherein the RPC call response indicates the invoked VNF instance has processed at least a portion of the encapsulated data;
• generate, subsequent to having received the RPC call response, a new network packet as a function of the RPC call response;
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• transmit the new network packet to a target computing device via a second network.

Communication circuitry of a network computing device, the communication circuitry comprising:

• means for receiving a network packet from a source computing device via a first network;
• means for identifying a virtual network function (VNF) instance based on the received network packet;
• means for performing an application layer encapsulation of at least a portion of data of the received network packet as a parameter of a remote procedure call (RPC) associated with the VNF instance;
• means for invoking the identified VNF instance using an application programming interface (API) call corresponding to the RPC that includes the RPC parameter;
• means for receiving an RPC call response from the invoked VNF instance, wherein the RPC call response indicates the invoked VNF instance has processed at least a portion of the encapsulated data;
• means for generating, subsequent to having received the RPC call response, a new network packet as a function of the RPC call response;
• and
• circuitry for transmitting the new network packet to a target computing device via a second network.