Transmit and Receive Method for a Data Service

Abstract

A method includes receiving a plurality of radio frequency (RF) channels in parallel at a receive site, and demodulating the RF channels using a plurality of demodulators of the receive site to generate a plurality of streams of packets, each stream of packets having a first address space. The method also includes combining the plurality of streams of packets at a tunneling destination of the receive site to generate a first stream of packets having a second address space.

1 . A method comprising:
 receiving a plurality of radio frequency (RF) channels in parallel at a receive site;   demodulating the RF channels using a plurality of demodulators of the receive site to generate a plurality of streams of packets, each stream of packets having a first address space; and   combining the plurality of streams of packets at a tunneling destination of the receive site to generate a first stream of packets having a second address space.   
   
   
       2 . The method of  claim 1  further comprising:
 receiving the first stream of packets at a transmit site;   encapsulating the first stream of packets at a tunnel source of the transmit site to generate a second stream of packets having the first address space;   dividing the second stream of packets to generate the plurality of streams of packets; and   modulating each stream of packets of the plurality of streams of packets using a corresponding modulator of a plurality of modulators of the transmit site to generate a corresponding RF channel of the plurality of RF channels; and   transmitting the RF channels from the transmit site to the receive site.   
   
   
       3 . The method of  claim 1  wherein the first address space comprises a first Internet Protocol (IP) address space and the second address space comprises a second IP address space. 
   
   
       4 . The method of  claim 1  wherein the first address space comprises a Media Access Control (MAC) address space and the second address space comprises an Internet Protocol (IP) address space. 
   
   
       5 . A method comprising:
 receiving a first stream of packets at a transmit site, each packet of the first stream comprising a first packet header having a destination address in a first address space;   encapsulating, at the transmit site, each packet of the first stream in a payload of a corresponding packet of a second stream of packets, each packet of the second stream comprising a second packet header having a destination address in a second address space;   generating, at the transmit site, a plurality of radio frequency (RF) channels from the second stream of packets, each RF channel representing a separate subset of packets of the second stream of packets;   receiving the plurality of RF channels at a receive site;   processing each RF channel of the plurality of RF channels at the receive site to generate a corresponding stream of packets of a plurality of streams of packets;   combining the plurality of streams of packets at the receive site to generate the second stream of packets; and   extracting the payload from each packet of the second stream of packets at the receive site to generate the first stream of packets.   
   
   
       6 . A method comprising:
 at a transmit site:
 receiving a first stream of packets having a first address space and intended for a first end user device; 
 receiving a second stream of packets intended for a second end user device; 
 encapsulating the first stream of packets in a third stream of packets having a second address space; 
 dividing the third stream of packets for parallel transmission among a plurality of radio frequency (RF) channels; and 
 providing the second stream of packets for transmission via a select RF channel of the plurality of RF channels concurrent with transmission of the third stream of packets via the plurality of RF channels. 
   
   
   
       7 . The method of  claim 6  further comprising:
 at a receive site:
 receiving the plurality of RF channels; 
 generate the second stream of packets and the third stream of packets from the plurality of RF channels; and 
 generating the first stream of packets from the second third stream of packets; 
   routing the second stream of packets to the second end user device; and   routing the first stream of packets to the first user device.   
   
   
       8 . A method comprising:
 at a transmit site:
 receiving a first stream of packets having a first address space and intended for a first end user device; 
 receiving a second stream of packets intended for a second end user device; 
 encapsulating the first stream of packets in a third stream of packets having a second address space; 
 dividing the third stream of packets for parallel transmission among a plurality of radio frequency (RF) channels; and 
 providing the second stream of packets for transmission via a select RF channel of the plurality of RF channels by multiplexing the second stream of packets with a portion of the third stream of packets for the select RF channel. 
   
   
   
       9 . The method of  claim 8  further comprising:
 at a receive site:
 receiving the plurality of RF channels; 
 generating the second stream of packets and the third stream of packets from the plurality of RF channels; and 
 generating the first stream of packets from the second third stream of packets; 
   routing the first stream of packets to the first user device; and   routing the second stream of packets to the second end user device.   
   
   
       10 . A method comprising:
 at a first transmit site:
 receiving a first stream of packets having a first address space; 
 encapsulating the first stream of packets in a second stream of packets having a second address space; and 
 dividing the third stream of packets for parallel transmission among a plurality of radio frequency (RF) channels; and 
   at a second transmit site:
 receiving a third stream of packets having the second address space; and 
 providing the third stream of packets for transmission via a select RF channel of the plurality of RF channels by multiplexing the third stream of packets with a portion of the second stream of packets for the select RF channel. 
   
   
   
       11 . The method of  claim 10  further comprising:
 at a receive site:
 receiving the plurality of RF channels; 
 generating the second stream of packets and the third stream of packets from the plurality of RF channels; and 
 generating the first stream of packets from the second stream of packets; and 
   routing the first stream of packets and the third stream of packets from the receive site to a network.