Fast Flow Technology

While traditional packet-based networks have advanced in networking performance, one of their fundamental strengths is also a limitation—routers and switches process individual packets one at a time independent of context. Given the exponential growth in quality sensitive real-time TCP/IP traffic such as video and voice, coupled with the general nature of IP communications susceptible to delay, jitter, and retransmissions, today's Internet is suffering from significant network congestion and under-utilization.

The quantum step forward to realizing the potential of IP networking requires shifting the focus from processing individual packets to managing individual flows.

Application developers are turning more and more to use of multiple flows in order to maximize the bandwidth for their quality sensitive, bandwidth intensive broadband applications such as video conferencing, OTT video, interactive on-line gaming, and VoIP. Anagran eliminates traffic congestion in the world’s busiest IP networks using Fast Flow Technology™, developed specifically to mitigate IP peak traffic conditions.. 

The Anagran FR-1000  can be transparently deployed  into any IP network as a transparent “bump in the wire” device.  Anagran's Internet traffic managers (ITMs) deliver instant network congestion relief, while ensuring fair user bandwidth allocation, increasing available bandwidth for users/applications, and enabling networks to economically reach their maximum revenue potential.

Anagran’s Fast Flow Technology recognizes individual flows, processing the first packet of the flow and dynamically associating a state with the flow. All remaining packets in the flow are switched using this state information. In addition, for each flow Anagran captures and maintains forwarding, QoS, and real-time behavioral data. Anagran’s Fast Flow Technology achieves granular control over each individual flow, which provides network operators the capabilities for creating and delivering network services with assured fair bandwidth allocation.

As illustrated above, a typical router processes each packet for all types of traffic in the same manner using queue based traffic management techniques. Anagran’s products sort  IP  flows in real time into dynamic ‘virtual channels’ of like traffic types at wire speed. 

Anagran’s technology results in a fair use policy framework that provides what the label promises: a flexible framework for establishing traffic management policies that are fair to all who use the broadband service independent of applications type.