Multi-Access Gateway Carrier Routing Residential Bandwidth
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
Residential communication services face issues due to home routers acting as bottlenecks, leading to service degradation, especially with emerging services that require significant upstream bandwidth, and third-party services often consuming bandwidth inefficiently, resulting in user dissatisfaction and increased support costs for service providers.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a multi-access gateway at the carrier's location, which performs routing functions for tens or hundreds of thousands of in-residence devices, eliminating the need for home-based gateways and allowing for secure, customizable, and efficient telecommunication services, including emergency and home control services, by using IPSec compliant communication channels and unique IP addresses.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If home routers are deployed and maintained by home users, then each residence can have independent routing control, but service quality degrades and support costs increase due to improper configurations and inability to provide preferential treatment to voice communications
Solution Approach 1:
The routing functionality is extracted from home user devices and relocated to carrier-controlled network elements. The home router is replaced with a simple bridge or access point, while intelligent routing, QoS policies, and service management are performed remotely by the carrier's network infrastructure, eliminating configuration errors while maintaining routing control.
Solution Approach 2:
A carrier-controlled network element acts as an intermediary between the home network and the service provider's core network. This intermediary performs routing functions, bandwidth management, and service policy enforcement, ensuring proper QoS treatment for voice and data services without requiring home user technical expertise.
2Adaptability or versatility
If home routers are used for IP device connectivity, then device proliferation is supported, but upstream bandwidth is strangled by in-residence devices and third-party services
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements dynamic bandwidth allocation and traffic shaping at the carrier's network element. Upstream bandwidth is dynamically adjusted based on service type, user priorities, and network conditions, allowing flexible support for multiple IP devices while preventing any single device or third-party service from monopolizing upstream capacity.
3Ease of manufacture
If home users purchase and maintain their own gateways, then cost distribution is balanced, but service provider control over residential communications is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The gateway functionality is extracted from the home environment and consolidated into carrier-controlled network elements. This eliminates the need for home users to purchase and maintain complex routing equipment, reducing their cost burden while giving the service provider full control over routing policies, QoS, and service delivery.
Data Source
AI summary
Different residences can be communicatively linked to a communication backbone via a multi-access gateway, where each residence comprises an adapter through which a set of IP devices directly connect to the multi-access gateway via IPSec compliant communication channels. The multi-access gateway can connect each of the IP devices to remotely located resources. Telecommunication services can be provided to the IP devices in the residences for fees. The multi-access gateway can controls specifics of the telecommunication services, which can include emergency (e.g., 911) services, home control services, and residential administration services. Any of the telecommunication services can be initiated, modified, or terminated by a carrier maintaining the multi-access gateway on a per residence basis for any of the different residences.