Patent ID: 8274981

Claim:
A method of implementing acceleration through a packet encapsulation protocol tunnel between a satellite modem termination system (SMTS) and a network gateway, the method comprising: receiving, at an acceleration module in communication with the SMTS and the network gateway, a first packet through the packet encapsulation protocol tunnel, the first packet comprising a payload accelerated by a user terminal using an acceleration protocol and transmitted to the SMTS via satellite, the accelerated first packet encapsulated by the SMTS using a packet encapsulation protocol tunnel header; removing the packet encapsulation protocol tunnel header from the encapsulated first packet; storing the removed packet encapsulation protocol tunnel header; retrieving the payload from the acceleration protocol of the accelerated first packet; retrieving the stored packet encapsulation protocol tunnel header; re-encapsulating the payload in a second packet using the retrieved packet encapsulation protocol tunnel header; and sending the encapsulated second packet through the packet encapsulation protocol tunnel to the network gateway.