It is also important to decouple the line-side interface
from the client-side interface, allowing each of them to evolve independently. The immediate
opportunity is to provide platforms that utilize the capability of the existing
network and allow new data transport services to be offered. It is also important that
the same technology can be used as the basis for an efficient and economical transport
infrastructure for both voice and data.
Circuit Bonding Standards Development
The pre-standard circuit-bonding technology relies on a set of integrated processes
to create a point-to-point connection. It combines the capacity of multiple links into a
single concatenated pipe. This circuit/channel bonding provides several benefits. First,
the large pipe is a single entity reducing the number of connections that must be managed.
Next, payloads can be supported that require more capacity than is available in
any of the individual channels, a gating issue for other systems. Last, there is the efficiency
of packing multiple payloads into a single large pipe.
Bonding is accomplished with a protocol that resides within the payload of the existing
links.
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