Patent ID: 8948149
Filing Date: 2015-02-03
Classification: H04B,H04L

Abstract:
1. A system for providing end-to-end layer-2 connectivity throughout a non-routed ground segment network connected to one or more satellites, the system comprising: a first non-autonomous gateway configured for processing primarily below layer-3 of the OSI-model (L3), the first non-autonomous gateway in communication with a bent pipe satellite that receives signals from one or more user terminals and relays the signals to the first non-autonomous gateway at layer-1 of the OSI-model (L1), the first non -autonomous gateway comprising: wherein the switch of the first non-autonomous gateway sends, via a ground-based L2 switch in communication with the first non-autonomous gateway, the subset of the plurality of data packets to a second non-autonomous gateway for transmission to an entity based on the virtual tagging tuples associated with each of the subset of the plurality of data packets.