Patent ID: 7174373

Claim:
An edge node comprising: a receiving router to receive content from a Network Operations Center (NOC) over a satellite content distribution network; a controller, connected with the receiving router to form a private Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN), to respond to requests from an Internet Redirection Engine (IRE), the IRE for directing content requested by an end user to the edge node, to process incoming data packages, and to execute commands from the NOC; one or more media servers, connected to the private VLAN, capable of simultaneously serving both live and non-live content; a computer with an attached display screen; a load balancer; an outbound router, connected with the load balancer to form a public VLAN and further connected to the media servers, to transmit the content from the media servers to the computer and to communicate with the NOC via a terrestrial back channel; and a firewall connecting the private and public VLANs.