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Innomedia Pte Ltd.

Kan Yan

Chih-Ping Lee

Szu-Ming Lee

This document describes methods, devices, systems, and means for a wireless mesh access point with user-space tunneling. A first wireless mesh network access point (WMAP) determines that a frame from a first device is destined for a second device associated with a second WMAP. The first WMAP encapsulates the frame to produce an encapsulated frame that includes an Internet Protocol (IP) header and a payload, the Internet Protocol (IP) header including an IP destination address of the second WMAP and an IP source address of the first WMAP, and the payload including a header and payload data from the frame. The first WMAP sends the encapsulated frame to the second WMAP using a station mode interface of the first WMAP, which causes the second WMAP to forward the frame to the second device.

Wireless mesh access point with user-space tunneling

A multi-media terminal adapter couples to a network access module over a communication link. The network access module communicates IP frames over a frame switched network. The multi-media terminal adapter comprises a wide area network interface coupled to the communication link for exchanging IP frames with the access module and a local area network interface for receiving outbound data client IP frames from each of a plurality of data clients. Each outbound data client IP frame comprises a socket information that includes a local area network IP address and a data client port number. A VoIP module generates outbound VoIP frames. Each outbound VoIP frame comprises socket information that includes a VoIP port number selected from a first group of port numbers exclusively reserved for use by the VoIP module. A router module is coupled between the wide area network interface and each of the VoIP module and the local area network interface. The router receives the outbound data client IP frames and the outbound VoIP frames and performs port translation on only the outbound data client IP frames.

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