OCS Granted Patent for Traffic Load Adaptive Network Physical Layer

CALGARY, Alberta, July 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Optimum Communications Services, Inc.
(OCS) has been awarded a patent on its innovation delivering realtime traffic
load adaptive physical layer for communications networks. The patent in
question can be found with its US Patent Number 7,558,260 via
http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.htm.

This novel network physical layer (L1) optimization method enables providing
premium quality, dedicated network services at cost below the prevailing,
shared capacity based services. OCS' patented technology makes this possible
through optimizing network capacity allocation according to packet-by-packet
traffic load variations, resulting in that networks no longer need to be
over-engineered for all possible packet (L2/3) traffic load distribution
scenarios, as an adaptive L1 will provide maximized packet throughput with
minimum theoretically sufficient total network capacity, reducing network
costs proportionately to the number of customer sites to be interconnected.

"I like to see basic innovations in our industry -- OCS' new patent is clever
and noteworthy, since it brings a fresh approach to packet service QoS,
security and determinism at the operationally less costly layer 1," stated
Michael Howard, Principal Analyst at Infonetics Research. "OCS' adaptive L1
technique should be considered since it performs optimization using end nodes,
rather than relying on intermediate nodes, and thereby can achieve bypass of
L2 and L3 nodes along a service delivery pathway."

Through emergence of such adaptive L1 optimized customer and application
networking model, the industry can find a new direction after decade or more
of complex effort to transition to a collapsed L2/3 packet-switched network
cloud where different customer networks had to be kept virtually isolated at
packet layer, as multiple client networks shared and competed for same
physical layer connection and packet-switch capacity, causing ever increasing
complexity costs and ongoing security concerns.

"Enabled by this innovation reducing physical layer capacity costs by an order
of magnitude, it actually is more economical to implement individual
application and customer networks over their dedicated L1 capacity pools, than
it would be to mix different client networks to a common, cross-contract
shared service provider capacity pool," remarked Mark O'Shaughnessy, OCS'
Marketing VP. "By keeping unrelated traffic flows isolated already at the
bottom of network protocol stack, the upper layer processing and
administration can be greatly simplified and associated costs accordingly
reduced, while each customer of these 'L1.5VPNs' gets highest achievable QoS
and security."

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SOURCE Optimum Communications Services, Inc.

Michael Howard of Infonetics Research, +1-408-583-3351, for Optimum
Communication Services