Exchanging media stream data between thin client and media gateway, bypassing virtual machine, in cloud computing system

摘要

A method and an apparatus for transmitting media stream data in a cloud computing system are provided. Before the establishment of a session between a Thin Client (TC) and a media gateway, the TC and the media gateway may exchange control signaling through the Virtual Machine (VM). After the session is established, the TC and the media gateway can transmit media stream data directly by using the established session. Due to the media stream data not passing through the VM, the VM does not need to encode or decode media stream data, and therefore the Central Processing Unit (CPU) occupation rate of the VM will not be high. As a result, the quantity of VMs that can run on a corresponding physical server can be further increased so as to improve the resource utilization rate of the physical server.