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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SOURCE Optimum Communications Services, Inc.

Mark Sandstrom of Optimum Communications Services, Inc., +1-403-265-7353,
mark@optimumzone.net