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IndraNet
Minder

IndraNet
Minder is a highly sophisticated computer (when formed into
a mesh network with other minders) is capable of initially
delivering Centralised Phone and Centralised Power Grids
and later Centralised TV Broadcasting & Entertainment and
Centralised Transport Systems.
Each minder’s
location is fitted with an antenna - small and discreet Real
Broadband Supply:
The minder is the customer premises equipment (CPE) that
delivers the broadband. The minder is also part of the FraMe
network. The new minder Version 2.5 (pictured above) is
being developed for deployment in residential areas.
The data (Emails, Internet Web pages, music, video, computer
games, etc.) hops from neighbouring minders to neighbouring
minders all the way to its destination. Communications are
routed either within the local FraMe network, or are routed
to the global Internet through an interconnect with long
distance backbone. The software selects the most appropriate
route across the mesh of minders.
There is no
tower, no cell, no cabling the streets, no central exchange.
It’s that simple; an IndraNet FraMe is just minders at
customers’ places.
A network of minders — high-performance computers
— linked together wirelessly at very high speeds. These minders are
both processor and storage devices, thus spreading the computing
workload over dozens, if not hundreds, of devices.
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Low Latency
(Fast
response time)
IndraNet
FraMes are designed to be used to provide latencies around
20 milliseconds (2Oms) that are suitable for many emerging
applications requiring fast response time like computer
games.
A large
proportion of the current growth in Internet traffic is due
to computer games played over the Internet. A few privileged
users who have access to cable or T connections enjoy very
low latencies of 11ms or less.
By
comparisons ADSL modems would have latencies upwards of 55ms
and up to 7Oms. This is often too slow for computer games
and other low latency applications. A dial up narrow band
modem is likely to have a 95ms latency. Many wireless
broadband systems also have a high latency; and a satellite
connection will have a latency of 400ms or more.
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One infrastructure, many uses
A
advantage is the ability for
IndraNet FraMes to be used to provide a multiplicity of iPNs services.
iPNs are autonomous and
secure IndraNet Intelligent Private Networks that are
configured over each local FraMe network. They
are reserved for a customer’s exclusive purposes, and leased
to that customer.
Examples of such services
include power grid management, security systems, traffic
management systems, and private network
between branches of a business.
This means that the one
FraMe infrastructure will be able to be used to
market a very wide range of services that presently often
require different parallel infrastructures.
In
other words, FraMes are designed to provide high economies
of scale.
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Guaranteed
bandwith
A major
competitive advantage is that the core IndraNet technology
is designed to never run out of bandwidth.
In most current networks, the more customers subscribe to a
network, the more load on that network,
and the less net bandwidth is available per customer.
This is more
particularly the case with cellular type wireless broadband
networks (like 3G or WiMAX).
For example, a 22 Mbps WiMAX tower beaming to say
2,000 customers in a suburb will only be able to provide
110kbps per customer.
In the same
type of environment, it is our intention that every IndraNet
FraMe customer that subscribe for it would get a full 2Mbps
(i.e. 2,000kbps) regardless of the network load caused by
other users.
In IndraNet FraMes, there is no shared bandwidth. This is a
plus for network operators.
The current
scarcity of bandwidth over the last 10 miles with bandwidth
abundance. Match this abundance with the existing abundance
of bandwidth at the backbone level. The total network
bandwidth grows with the number of customers on the FraMe
network. This is also a plus for customers as bandwidth
costs are reduced and the bandwidth capacity they pay for is
what they get.
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Large scale
networks
A FraMe networks
are designed to scale to high densities of users per square
kilometre and increased bandwidth per minder. Except in very
high density urban environments, as in parts of Korea, where
fibre-to-the-home networks are economically viable, most
current technologies cannot cost-effectively scale to the
very high densities of points of supply, and increased
bandwidth per point of supply, that are already required in
some cities and that are expected to become common over the
next five years and beyond.
The IndraNet
core technology is specifically designed to meet this market
requirement.
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Who wants
FraMes?
The IndraNet
FraMes are designed to leverage existing infrastructure,
especially abundant long distance backbone with spare
capacity and that seek to increase substantially their
customer base. IndraNet targets niche markets in areas that
the existing infrastructure does not reach or where it
cannot supply real broadband competitively.
It is estimated that by the end of this decade over 700
million broadband access lines will be in operation
globally. Broadband requirements per household are presently
doubling every 18-24 months and, by the
end of this decade, at least 25 percent of all residential
broadband connections are expected to require
services of 10Mbps and over. The IndraNet FraMe networks are
aimed at that market.
Potential customers fall into two categories.
The first are
telecom backbone operators that do not have independent
access to customers. They have to rely on and, at great
cost, have go through the local loop networks of their
legacy competitors. Strategically, being able to by-pass
their competitors and access customers directly through a
wireless mesh network is of great importance to them.
In the second
category are emerging Broadband Service Provider (BSP)
entrepreneurs, small and large, who have seen the very
substantial market opportunity in the fast increasing demand
for real broadband in niche markets currently starved of
connectivity.
In Australasia (Australia and New Zealand), most central
business districts (CBD's) are now well catered
for, however, the areas outside the CBD's have severely
restricted broadband access. It is estimated that
over 4 million in Australia and 2 million in New
Zealand potential customers (homes and businesses) exist in
urban and rural areas. This is one of the markets that
our FraMe networks are designed to target.
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Summary
IndraNet &
MDI are using the convergence of
information,
communication,
energy technologies
A shift from a
paradigm of “bigger, more centralised is better”,
to
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A paradigm of |
smaller |
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de-centralised networks |
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more performing |
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more resilient |
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more sustainable |
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much more profitable |
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