Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd.

Eldad Yitzhaki

Yoseph Hecht

Oren Markovitz

Isacc Ben Laish

Moti Goldshtein

Micheal Shama

Elad Nachman

Methods for overcoming latency and throughput degradation ensuing from packet fragmentation performed at a source node are disclosed. Some embodiments of the disclosed methods may be applicable to networks in which performance enhancement methods are used, including but not limited to TCP acceleration methods. In some embodiments, the disclosed methods may include determining an MTU for a session based on one or more fragmentation policies. Also disclosed is a satellite communication system that may be configured to resolve one or more detrimental effects on TCP spoofing resulting from the MTU discovery mechanism of IPv6.

Network performance enhancement

In accordance with embodiments of the disclosure, a communication network comprising a hub and a plurality of terminals may be provided. In some embodiments, the hub and the terminals may communicate over a wireless medium. A method is presented for allocating IP addresses (e.g., public IP addresses) in the network while achieving very high utilization of IP addresses and maintaining IP connectivity between nodes connected to the terminals and between said nodes and a network connected to the communication network via the hub (e.g., a public network, such as the Internet). In some embodiments, a common IP address (e.g., a public IP address) may be allocated to each of the terminals for their local interfaces, and routing techniques may be used to resolve resulting obstacles.

Efficient utilization of internet protocol addresses

In a satellite communication network, a link between a remote terminal and a traffic processor located at the hub may be used for providing services over a satellite link, such as traffic routing, protocol acceleration, data compression and data encryption. Aspects of this invention relate to methods and apparatus for automatically and dynamically associating remote terminals with traffic processors. These methods may be used for simplifying the satellite network's configuring process, especially for large scale networks, for offering load balancing between traffic processors and for offering an efficient automatic redundancy mechanism when a traffic processor malfunctions.

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Tel-Mond, Israel

Eldad Yitzhaki