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Saving Bandwidth for VoIP and Streamed Media

Voice now carried on the public switched telephone network (PSTN) will migrate to packet networks such as VoIP on the Internet, VoLTE, and 5G cellular.  The volume of voice is overshadowed by rapidly growing streaming video and games, and all of these forms share similar burdens in the bandwidth overhead of packet headers.

Circuit-switched voice signals flow across networks with little overhead, like water through a series of pipes.  Packets, on the other hand, require the addition of headers--often larger than the payload, like large tags on tiny bottles--that every switch has to read and act on to forward each packet.  Most of the headers carry repetitive information not required for a packet to find its way across a wide area network.


Consider the Multi-Protocol Label Switched (MPLS) services now considered the best form for quality enterprise connectivity.  Label Switched Routers (LSRs) in the core of the network read only a 4-byte Label to decide how to forward a packet.  Yet that packet may carry almost 100 bytes of protocol headers.

Alleyoop Networks has a patented method to reduce the bandwidth needed for streamed media.  At the same time, the end-user devices (IP phones, computers, displays, etc.) see standard packet formats and standard protocols.

The Session Bridge improves efficiency the most where packets are frequent and carry small payloads:  voice and interactive video are prime examples.  The value of the Session Bridge rises with the cost of bandwidth or the difficulty of adding more.

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