Network Bonding Segmentation for Long Haul Latency Reduction
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing network bonding and aggregation technologies often result in suboptimal performance due to long haul effects, where bonded/aggregated connections are slower than the network backbone, and require central server management, leading to increased latency and reduced network performance across distant locations.
Innovation Solution
A networking system that includes client site network components and network server components configured to create a network overlay, allowing data traffic to be carried over bonded/aggregated connections and then terminated at an access point to the network backbone, thereby reducing long haul effects and improving performance by managing data traffic across both bonded/aggregated and high performing network paths.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Speed
If bonded/aggregated connections are maintained from Location A to Location B across the network backbone, then network performance is improved from Location A to the network backbone, but network performance across the entire network path is less than optimal due to network impedance and long haul effects
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the bonded/aggregated connection into two parts: a first bonded/aggregated connection from Location A to an intermediary Location C, and a second bonded/aggregated connection from Location B to Location C. This segmentation eliminates the need to maintain a single long haul bonded connection across the entire path, thereby reducing network impedance and latency while still achieving improved network performance through bonding/aggregation at each segment.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary location (Location C) that acts as a mediator between Location A and Location B. This intermediary terminates the first bonded/aggregated connection and establishes a separate second bonded/aggregated connection to Location B, allowing the system to avoid the performance degradation associated with maintaining a single long haul bonded connection across the network backbone.
2Productivity
If a single bonded/aggregated connection is maintained across distant locations, then throughput is increased, but network impedance and long haul effects reduce overall performance
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the long haul connection into two separate bonded/aggregated connections that meet at an intermediary location. Each segment maintains the throughput benefits of bonding/aggregation while limiting the distance over which network impedance accumulates, thereby preserving both high throughput and reliable network performance across distant locations.
3Speed
If bonded/aggregated connections are used for long haul communication, then network performance is improved over individual links, but the bonded/aggregated links remain slower than the network backbone
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the long haul communication path into two shorter bonded/aggregated connections that meet at an intermediary location. This segmentation allows the system to take advantage of the network backbone for the intermediate segment while maintaining bonding/aggregation benefits for the access segments, thereby achieving speeds closer to the network backbone without requiring a complete overhaul of the existing bonded connection infrastructure.
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AI summary
A networking system, method, and device is provided for improving network communication performance between client sites at a distance from one another such that would usually require long haul network communication. The networking system includes at least one network bonding/aggregation computer system for bonding or aggregating one or more diverse network connections so as to configure a bonded/aggregated connection that has increased throughput; and at least one network server component implemented at an access point to a high performing network. Data traffic is carried over the bonded/aggregated connection. The network server component automatically terminates the bonded/aggregated connection and passes the data traffic to the network backbone, while providing a managed network path that incorporates both the bonded/aggregated connection and a network path carried over the high performing network, and thereby providing improved performance in long haul network connections.