Technology-agnostic traffic engineering in a multinational network
Pierre Simon, Norbert Bret · 2015
In tactical networks, the quality of service of flows which demand an assured data rate requires connection admission control, and this process can be strongly improved by coupling it with QoS-oriented routing. The TACOMS phase 2 intelligent routing solution does not only choose paths according to their ability to provide a specified data rate, it can also select the route of a flow as a function of a target performance such as its end-to-end transit delay, or as a function of the end user's preference for certain types of links. Being able to select constrained routes, TACOMS phase 2 provides path diversity between a source and a destination, and thus multiplies the quantity of traffic which can be transported by a network without provisioning additional resources. These benefits can be reaped at the scale of a multinational military network of virtually any size, and without imposing any standards inside national systems. TACOMS phase 2 is agnostic to the technology of underlying national networks and is compatible with the use of commercial off-the-shelf routers both in these national networks and in TACOMS interoperability gateways themselves.