MY195472A - System and Method of Single Point Channel Bonding and Network Convergence for Hybrid Access Gateways - Google Patents

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a system and method for single point convergent hybrid access gateway. The conventional systems and methods for channel bonding have high processing overhead that affect the throughput from 20% to 40%. If the processing overhead is over 40%, then the channel bonding implementation is considered ineffective and unnecessary for implementation as the resulted internet speed using the channel bonding is unchanged or lower than using a single internet gateway channel or in worst scenario reduces the internet speed from the client device (1) to the cloud service or application (5). The present invention provides a system for allowing channel bonding for at least two channels in a communication network, comprising at least a client device (1) electrically connected to a channel bonding means (2); the channel bonding means (2) is electrically connected to multiple internet gateways (3), IG, operated by at least one Internet Service Provider, ISP; the multiple IG (3) are electrically connected to internet (4); the internet (4) is electrically connected to at least a device or server with cloud service or application (5); wherein the ISP provides multiple channels; upon receiving a request to connect to the cloud service and application (5), the channel bonding means (2) provides at least a unique path deterministic (7) sub-system which implements function and algorithms that intelligently determines the channel path condition from the client device (1) to the cloud service or application (5) for each of multiple channels; the path deterministic (7) sub-system uses the Internet Message Control Protocol (ICMP) and Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) as the real-time indicators to determine the activity status of the channel path and the condition of the multiple channels and the cloud service or application (5) destination presence, the channel bonding means (2) controls the efficiency of channel utilization for each of the multiple channels using both the transport and network layers in reference with the Open System Interconnection (OSI) standard to achieve a very efficient, low overhead and high performance channel bonding means.