FatPipe Patent for WAN/Internet BC over Disparate Networks
FatPipe Networks (Salt Lake City, UT), a developer of patented tools for WAN optimization, redundancy and security products, recently announced U.S. Patent No. 7,406,048 which protects the “tools and techniques for directing packets over multiple parallel disparate networks, based on address and other criteria.”
The firm’s invention facilitates dynamic load balancing and automatic failover of packets over multiple parallel private and public networks for high levels of WAN fault tolerance and security. It helps companies who are utilizing point-to-point, frame relay or MPLS networks achieve the highest level of reliability for wide area network (WAN) connectivity by aggregating data lines from private networks with public Internet lines using VPNs and/or other Internet-based networks. The patent protects the methods used to allow frame relay, MPLS and/or point-to-point networks to co-exist with VPN and other Internet-based networks for redundancy and the ability to fail over from one disparate network to the other transparently.
Users may elect to use the technology to load balance data packets over two or more disparate WAN connections, and also have the automatic failover component in place, or treat one of the WANs as a backup that is used only when the primary network fails. The invention also allows for a transition from frame or point-to-point networks to Internet-based solutions in a graded fashion.
