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A network overlay system comprising:

• a first network node connected in an overlay network;
• a second network node connected in the overlay network and geographically separated from the first network node,
• wherein the first and second network nodes are configured to forward, each respectively to the other, packetized traffic passing between first network endpoints in network communication with the first network node and second network endpoints in network communication with the second network node, and
• wherein the first and second network nodes are each configured to, for forwarding particular individual packets of the packetized traffic, select at least between concurrently active first and second network overlay paths;
• and
• first and second translation nodes configured to lie within the first network overlay path, the first translation node configured to
• receive, from the first network node, first individual packets each destined for one or more of the second network endpoints,
• transmit to the second translation node a plurality of time-distributed first batches, each comprising a respective group of the first individual packets, via a remote direct memory access (RDMA) write transaction to the second translation node for each respective first batch,
• receive, via respective RDMA write transactions from the second translation node, each of a plurality of time-distributed second batches, each comprising a respective group batched from a plurality of second individual packets received by the second translation node, and
• from each received respective second batch, separate the respective group of the plurality of second individual packets into received individual packets and forward at least some of the received individual packets to the first network node for distribution toward respective packet destinations.