method for routing signals in a hybrid network, user terminal routing system, and hybrid communications network

摘要

These are techniques for providing return link routing in a hybrid communications network that includes a number of different networks that have different characteristics. User Terminal Routing Systems (UTRSS) provide interfaces between local user networks and the multiple communications networks of the hybrid network. each other may include a routing table that has stored mappings that are populated according to routing link communications (implicitly or explicitly), each of which associates a respective entry among a plurality of routing table entries with one of the networks. of communications. when an utr receives back link data from its respective local user network, the received data indicates a destination node. utrs can determine which of the stored mappings corresponds to the destination node and can route the return link data received through a network selected from the communications networks according to the mapping identified between the mappings.