NetEx, a provider of high-speed data transport over TCP, stated that major telecommunications companies are spending unnecessary amounts of money and taking years to upgrade their networks to support the next generation of wideband services. This is happening even though a more cost effective solution is available for immediate use.

 

Phone companies, cable providers and other service providers can now achieve up to a 10x speed increase over their existing broadband infrastructure with the help of NetEx HyperPipe bandwidth optimization software. Apart from deferring the costs considerably, it also provides other benefits such as reducing time delays and technical limitations of billion dollar network upgrades. The inherent problem of the inefficiency of Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) data transports between the service provider and the customer location is also solved by HyperPipe.

 

With an innovative software design developed specifically to accelerate traffic over an IP network, HyperPipe intercepts TCP packets and sends them over the network in a manner that is optimized for achieving greater throughput. By protecting data packets from variations in line quality, the advanced algorithms within HyperPipe get rid of the problems that constrain the speed of typical IP networks.

 

Designed for Local Area Network data transport, TCP can take from 60 to 80 percent of the available bandwidth because of the overhead built into the protocol. It can suffer from variable line quality issues, such as jitter, latency and bit errors in WAN environments, which requires packets to be re-sent and seriously degrade data transmission rates and throughput.

 

“Phone and cable companies have launched multi-billion dollar bandwidth competitive network upgrades but unless they also address the fundamental limitations of TCP, the new wideband networks will have the same bandwidth constriction issues as current broadband technology,” said Robert MacIntyre, vice president of Business Development and Marketing at NetEx.

 

“HyperPipe gives these providers an unmatched tool to deliver wideband-class service on a broadband network with a huge time-to-market advantage. There is simply no financial, competitive or technical reason for service providers to spend the time and money on wideband network upgrades when they can receive the same benefits today using HyperPipe on an existing broadband backbone,” added MacIntyre.