The present invention is an apparatus and method for analyzing a fluid used in a machine or in an industrial process line. The satellite signal has precise and coarse information orbit periods containing precise and coarse orbit information respectively for the positioning information satellite. Such TLB-sharing techniques increase the total amount of useful translations that are cached by the system, thereby reducing the number of page-table walks and improving performance. A packet generator packetizes the content in the data program stream for delivery over an Internet protocol -based local area network.