Efficient transport of encapsulated media traffic over restrictive networks

A computer readable medium having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to transmit encapsulated media, the transmitting comprising:

• receiving a first request to establish a tunnel with a stream based transport layer, the first request comprising a tag;
• receiving a second request to establish the tunnel with a datagram based transport layer, the second request comprising the tag;
• establishing the tunnel with the stream based transport layer and receiving the encapsulated media over the stream based transport layer;
• establishing the datagram based transport layer for the tunnel in addition to the stream based transport layer and receiving the encapsulated media over the datagram based transport layer;
• and
• releasing the stream based transport layer.

A tunneling server in communication with a tunneling client for transmitting encapsulated media between the tunneling server and the tunneling client, the tunneling server comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a storage device coupled to the processor that stores instructions that when executed by the processor, implement functionality comprising:
• receiving a first request to establish a tunnel with a stream based transport layer, the first request comprising a tag;
• receiving a second request to establish the tunnel with a datagram based transport layer, the second request comprising the tag;
• establishing the tunnel with the stream based transport layer and receiving the encapsulated media over the stream based transport layer;
• establishing the datagram based transport layer for the tunnel in addition to the stream based transport layer and receiving the encapsulated media over the datagram based transport layer;
• and
• releasing the stream based transport layer.