Thursday, November 29, 2012

ITE 221 - Fall 2012 - Chapter 8

PURPOSE:

The chapter describes the signals and media used to transmit digital signals and the methods of encoding and transmitting data using analog and digital signals. It describes the methods for detecting and correcting data transmission errors and the methods for efficiency using communication channels.


How ML-IP Can Increase Bandwith

 


 

 

One of the major issues facing Internet Service Providers today is how to increase bandwith with the technology we have today.  With more people connecting to the Internet and with many different types of devices (tablets, smartphones, laptops, etc.) that have the capability to connect to the internet, ISPs are finding their systems bandwith availability reaching its capacity.

 

ML-IP is one way in which ISPs can increase their bandwith.  ML-IP (MultiLink-IP) is multilinking of IP data streams. What ML-IP does is allow traffic traveling across different network paths between two ML-IP gateways to be aggregated so that it increases the bandwidth. Since the aggregation is achieved end-to-end between the gateways the ISPs do not need to support the ML-IP technology because ML-IP can aggregate at the network layer and not at the physical layer. This allows the ISP to increase bandwith and increase the networks reliability.  It also is a very cost effective way to increase bandwith because not much if any new infrastructure is needed.

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