When transmitting in higher-order modes, the chances of dielectric breakdown in the bulk glass can be reduced by judicious selection of the mode of transmission. The installed component can be an operating system component running in a Virtual Private Server, or a component of third party software. The transmitter portion is configured to transmit return packets that is triggered in response to the UDPVA packets, wherein the data distribution center indicates to the BIntU transceiver that the UDPVA packets forwarded by the BIntU transceiver to the data distribution center are being received by the data distribution center or a second BIntU transceiver.