1. A system for providing layer-2 connectivity through a non-routed ground segment network, the system comprising: one or more satellites configured to transmit data packets; a non-autonomous gateway in communication with the one or more satellites, the non-autonomous gateway is configured to receive the data packets from the one or more satellites at layer-1 of the OSI-model (L1), generate a plurality of virtual tagging tuples within layer-2 of the OSI-model (L2) packet headers of the plurality of data packets, transmit, at L2, the virtually tagged data packets, each including a virtual tagging tuple and an entity destination; and a L2 switch in communication with the non-autonomous gateway, the L2 switch configured to receive the data packets and transmit the data packets to the entity based on each of the virtual tuples associated with each of the data packets.