Disclosed is method for operating a protocol translator between an upstream device and a downstream device including receiving, at the protocol translator from the upstream device, a first plurality of packets according to a first protocol, extracting a payload from each of the first plurality of packets according to the first protocol, constructing a message from the extracted payloads, slicing the message into a second plurality of packets according to a second protocol, storing the second plurality of packets in a retransmit queue, sending the second plurality of packets to the downstream device, receiving an acknowledgement from the downstream device, and removing from the retransmit queue, one or more packets identified by the acknowledgement.