Patent ID: 8457036
Filing Date: 2013-06-04
Classification: H04B,H04L

Abstract:
1. A system of communicating via a satellite communication network comprising a hub, zero or more independent remote terminals, and at least two subnets: wherein a first subnet in the satellite communication network comprises at least one gateway and at least one remote terminal, wherein the at least one gateway is configured to communicate with the at least one remote terminal and with the hub, and the at least one remote terminal is configured to communicate with the at least one gateway and the hub; wherein the at least one gateway is configured to transmit a point to multipoint stream towards the at least one remote terminal included in the first subnet using a signal comprised of long transmission bursts overlaying two or more regular transmission timeslots, and to statistically multiplex within a long burst one or more payload units destined to one or more remote terminals included in the first subnet; wherein each of the at least two subnets is configured as a private network so that exchange of data between entities belonging to different subnets is blocked; and wherein the satellite communication network is configured to share bandwidth between any of the at least two subnets and any of the zero or more independent remote terminals.