OCS Awarded Patent for Network Throughput Maximization Techniques

CALGARY, Alberta, March 11 /PRNewswire/ — Optimum Communications Services, Inc. (OCS) has been granted a patent on its innovation enabling realtime self-optimizing packet switching and transport networks. This patent on network traffic throughput maximization techniques utilized in OCS’ Intelligent Transport Network(TM) (ITN) can be found with its US Patent Number 7,333,511 via http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.htm.

This unique network optimization method of OCS’ ITN automatically adjusts capacities of an ‘adaptive-mesh’ of dynamic-bandwidth Layer 1 circuits based on realtime traffic load variations between network access points. As a result, ITN continuously maximizes the network customer traffic throughput, while being packet-layer transparent and directly interoperable with common standard customer equipment, e.g. MPLS routers or Ethernet switches.

“OCS’s latest patent represents an innovative, leading edge methodology that in lab testing has demonstrated fiber-optic wavelength efficiency gains of up to 20X over traditional methods, while maintaining Quality of Service levels” according to Zeus Kerravala, Yankee Group’s Senior Vice President of Enterprise Research. “Disruptive technology such as this being introduced by OCS significantly drives down the cost of bandwidth, helping to ‘commoditize’ Mbit/s in the service delivery market similar to what has already occurred in the computer memory industry.”

The Adaptive-Mesh architecture of ITN enables supporting the theoretical maximum amount of non-oversubscribed access capacity over given physical network capacity, e.g., in case of 40Gbps fiber-optic wavelength ring and 10Gbps access rates, up to twenty 10Gbps access points per wavelength. By comparison, providing such service capacity with conventional technologies would require a pair of mutually protecting core packet switches or routers, plus a dedicated wavelength loop for each of the twenty 10Gbps (e.g. 10GbE) access points, i.e. 20 wavelengths in total. Thus, compared to conventional implementations, ITN provides:

   —  20:1 reduction in required wavelength capacity, and proportional       reduction in optical equipment port capacity, representing 2000%       architectural cost-efficiency gain;    —  Elimination of the core routers, saving 200Gbps of router capacity;    —  Packet-layer-transparent, customer-controllable packet-switched       network connectivity.    

“In addition to multiplying bandwidth efficiency by a factor of 20, ITN reduces the complexity, cost and number of network elements and management systems required due to its realtime self-optimizing and self-configuring Adaptive-Mesh architecture”, noted Richard Huffman, OCS’ VP of Business Development. “ITN therefore allows OCS to provide dedicated capacity based, secure and high quality corporate WAN and service provider backbone network services at costs lower than even the conventional packet-layer-shared capacity based services.”

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