Fast Flow Technology
Anagran eliminates congestion in the world’s busiest networks with Fast Flow Technology™, developed from the ground-up to specifically eliminate and resolve congestion created by the proliferation of today’s broadband applications such as video, P2P, voice, gaming, YouTube etc. – anywhere in the network.
Anagran products complement routers by dynamically allocating and ‘channelizing’ any broadband traffic mix over a single converged network. Easily added to any IP network as either a Layer 3 node or simple “bump in the wire”, Anagran products optimize and protect routers by delivering traffic that is perfectly groomed per the capabilities of both the router and the network -- without ever overloading either! This instant network congestion relief allows routers and networks as a whole to economically reach their true performance potential.
By maintaining constant state information for every flow, the FR-1000 uses its unique Fast Flow Technology™ to eliminate IP network congestion and enable new levels of traffic management, network performance, and efficiency in an extremely compact, energy-friendly 1RU form factor. By managing traffic and forwarding packets based on flows rather than individual packets as they arrive, the FR-1000 gains insight into traffic dynamics and behavior over time that until now was not possible in IP networks. Since roughly 95% of all packets switched through the internal switching fabric completely bypass the forwarding function, very little processing power is expensed in forwarding traffic. The result is massive efficiency gains that are evidenced by the FR-1000's extremely compact 1RU form factor which houses up to 48 wire-speed GigE ports, and the scant 300 watts of electricity required to power the system when fully configured.
In the illustration above, a typical router processes all types of traffic (video, bulk, P2P, voice, etc.) the same way and delivers this jumble of different type packets to the network on a “best effort” basis. Anagran’s products automatically sort the diverse traffic mix into dynamic ‘virtual channels’ of like traffic types at wire speed. This allows different types of traffic to thrive over the same pipe … like a flexible virtual pipe within a pipe. For the first time, the high performance converged network is an economical reality.
Why flow technology now? Conventional wisdom for the past 40 years had concluded that while potentially enormously powerful, flow technology was too expensive to implement in a commercial product due to the amount of memory required to maintain state information on every flow. However, the steep and rapid decline in memory cost over the past decade has actually made keeping flow state virtually insignificant from a cost standpoint. In fact, flow technology is not just feasible, but is now an extremely cost-effective and efficient way to optimize flows. Given the continuous rush of more and more video traffic every day, the Anagran Fast Flow Technology has arrived just in time.
