Optimized redirection for network architectures

A serving node for providing to a user device location information about a data device that stores a specific asset, wherein the user device is part of a network that includes the serving node, and an address of the user device is indicative of a gateway node such that the user device is seen as being located at the gateway node although the user device is being located at the serving node, the serving node comprising:

• an input/output interface configured to receive a first message from the user device, the first message including a request for the specific asset;
• and
• a processor connected to the input/output interface and configured to
• receive a first message from the user device, the first message including a request for the specific asset,
• send the first message to the gateway node,
• receive a second message from the gateway node, the second message including a first location of a first data device that provides the specific asset,
• modify the second message to include an indication about a second location of a second data device that provides the specific asset, wherein the first location is different from the second location, and
• send the modified second message including the second location to the user device for accessing the specific asset.

A network hardware device having a computer readable medium including computer executable instructions, wherein the instructions, when executed, implement a method for providing to a user device location information of a data device that provides a specific asset, wherein the user device is present in a network that includes at least a serving node and an address of the user device is indicative of a gateway node that is different from the serving node, the method comprising:

• receiving at the serving node a first message from the user device, the first message including a request for the specific asset;
• sending the first message from the serving node to the gateway node;
• receiving at the serving node a second message from the gateway node, the second message including a first location of a first data device that provides the specific asset;
• modifying at the serving node the second message to include an indication about a second location of a second data device that provides the specific asset, wherein the first location is different from the second location;
• and
• sending the modified second message including the second location to the user device for accessing the specific asset.