Patent granted for business continuity solution via disparate networks

FatPipe Networks has announced today that it has successfully secured US Patent No. 7,406,048 for an invention which protects the "tools and techniques for directing packets over multiple parallel disparate networks, based on address and other criteria."

The new solution helps companies who are utilizing point-to-point, frame relay or MPLS networks to 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, MPSL and/or point-to-point networks to co-exist with VPN and other Internet-based networks for redundancy and the ability to failover from one disparate network to the other transparently.

The user 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.

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•Date: 4th Sept 2008• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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