Peer to Peer

HotPools creates an 'Always ON' service using the most appropriate methods. In the case of ISDN connections either end of the link may initiate a connection, in the case of Wireless links 'bandwith management' functionality determines throughput.

Customer Benefits

• Links are monitored continuously and capacity dynamically added or removed every 5 to 30 seconds from a Pool of resources (links).
• The bandwidth required to satisfy your customer's demand is constantly available. Contented customers ALL the time. Classic access systems, due to cost, typically use a computed average which means that half the time ALL customers are unhappy.
• Typically with a PVA enabled system you will get twice or more of the bandwidth for the same cost.

Resource Sharing

HotPools uses resource sharing to deliver optimized throughput and resource utilization.

Customer Benefits

• Initial equipment and resource (link) investment is minimised.
• Equipment and other resources (links) may be added incrementally.
• Costs are tied directly to demand (revenue).

Distributed Resource

HotPool's distributed resource management provides high availability.

Customer Benefits

• No single point of failure.
• Equipment and other resources (links) may be added in 'real-time' with no customer down-time.
• Any failures (resource or equipment) will only reduce throughput until rectified.
• In most fail modes - remote management is still available.

QoS

HotPool's Quality of Service (QoS) features provide total user control over what traffic gets priority.

Customer Benefits

• Three levels of prioritisation ('high', 'medium' and 'low') selected by traffic type and optionally port number or port range allow 'fine-grained' control.
• Any priority ratio may be defined between the prioritisation levels allowing virtual elimination of 'low' traffic in overload conditions or just reduced throughput.
• Prioritisation is completely dynamic up to the limit of bandwidth. i.e. if there is no 'high' (or 'medium') priority traffic then other traffic types will be serviced faster.
• 'Real-time' control provides for quick reaction to load crises.
• Application Specific Gateway (ASG) features enable prioritisation levels to be inhereted by secondary port applications e.g. FTP, SIP (IP Telephony) etc.