Network operation center architecture in a high bandwidth satellite based data delivery system for internet users

Abstract

The Network Operations Center (“NOC”) of an internet broadcast system receives video and other content from a content provider and uplinks that data to a satellite for delivering at high bandwidths to edge nodes and thereafter to internet users.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS [0001] This application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09 / 960,649 entitled MICRONODE IN A SATELLIBE BASED CONTENT DELIVERY SYSTEM, filed on Sep. 20, 2001 by Vivian Pecus, David L. Bullock, Mark Kalmbach, Philip Lausier, and Christopher Benden, incorporated herein by reference, and which in turn claimed priority from the following fifteen provisional United States patent applications: [0002] Ser. No. 60 / 275,779 entitled INTEGRATED NETWORK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM USING HARMONIC ELEMENT MANAGERS IN A CONTENT DELIVERY SYSTEM filed on Mar. 13, 2001; [0003] Ser. No. 60 / 275,780 entitled FILE NAMING SYSTEM WITH TRACKING AND DIAGNOSTIC FEATURES IN A CONTENT DELIVERY SYSTEM, filed on Mar. 13, 2001; [0004] Ser. No. 60 / 275,781 entitled ARCHITECTURE FOR DELIVERING VIDEO AND OTHER CONTENT AT HIGH BANDWIDTHS USING NO Cs, SATELLITES, AND EDGE NODES TO INTERNET USERS, filed on Mar. 13, 2001; [0005] Ser. No. 60 / 275,782 entitled MOBILE NODE FOR ...

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Problems solved by technology

This problem is particularly critical for files that must be delivered in a real time or near real time sequence, such as audio and video files, and for files that must be delivered at the same time to a multiplicity of places.

The dividing line between computer technology and television / radio broadcast is rapidly diminishing.

The streaming experience in the internet, however, generally has been a disappointment for viewers until now.

Choppy, postage-stamp sized images, and bad buffering due to the congestion and packet loss of land-based internet networks have been major obstacles for streaming multimedia through the internet.

Early attempts at streaming video and audio have been marred by low bandwidth internet connections and network congestion.

Congestion on the internet routers delays delivery of streaming media to the final destination, resulting in choppy, disjointed video.

However, the network congestion problem has not been improved as expected because internet backbone routing systems have not caught up with the drastic increase of internet traffic.

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