| 摘要 |
A communications system and method is provided that includes multiple networked devices connected in a local area network and connected, via a gateway having enhanced functionality, to a wide area network such as the Internet using one or more Internet service providers. The system includes a source routing device (130), at least two networked customer premise equipment devices (118, 120), a gateway (123) for controlling communication between the source routing device (130) and the customer premise equipment devices (118, 120) and an address server (132) for providing the gateway (123) with at least two dynamically assigned Internet protocol addresses corresponding to different Internet service providers (138, 140) to enable each of the customer premise equipment devices (118, 120) to establish simultaneous connections with the different Internet service providers (138, 140).
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