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Well, you would need to write a driver listening to the network stream and publishing the lidar data as a LaserScan message.

Basically, this is a simple program (ROS node), that reads this data, puts it in a member of the type sensor_msgs::LaserScan, publishes this data, and this is it.

Check out this question here about writing hardware drivers....

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