1. A system for transporting data through a computer network comprising: at least one front-end comprising an interface to communicate request/response traffic with one or more clients, said request/response traffic comprising one or more data packets of a first type; at least one back-end comprising an interface to communicate said request/response traffic with one or more servers; and at least one communication channel between said at least one front-end and said at least one back-end, said at least one communication channel configured to communicate said request/response traffic between said at least one front-end and said back-end in one or more data packets of a second type; wherein said at least one front-end and said at least one back-end implement preselected compatible semantics to encode and decode said request/response traffic between data packets of said first and second types for communication through said at least one communication channel.