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nGen Systems
nGen
n
(represents any number, many,
multiplication)
Gen
generation (distributed
power generation, cogeneration, tri-generation, air conditioning and space
heating, hot water and process heat, cooling and refrigeration, smart grid and
intelligent energy and power networks).
n Gen
Systems are not engines, or mere cogeneration or tri-generation units.
Instead they are just that – systems. They are made of individual modules that
can be integrated on site in a variety of ways to match specific customer
demands. These individual modular components of
nGen
Systems are well proven. Some are commercially available “off-the-shelf”
while others can be readily manufactured based on well known existing designs
and techniques.
The fundamental innovation in IT Mondial technology
is in how those components are specified and integrated into an
nGen System in order
to supply end user requirements at costs and efficiencies that legacy
infrastructures simply cannot match.
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IndraNet Frame Networks (Communications)
– IndraNet have successfully completed testing program, achieving
stability of the FraMe test mesh network in Christchurch
, New Zealand.
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with over 1 Mb/s and up to
3 Mb/s symmetrical bandwidth,
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very low latencies,
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guaranteed bandwidth,
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highly scalable,
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multiplicity of independent
parallel uses, and
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highly secure.
When they began, 10 years ago,
there were about a dozen teams world-wide working in this domain. Most
have fallen by the way side after several hundred million dollars of
expenditure. IndraNet have achieved success with
less than $20 million of funding. Their technology is globally patented.
They are now working to expand capacity to over 5 Mb/s based on new
hardware.
| Progress in
development and integration of the FraMe Network in Christchurch, New
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| Minders being made ready
for installation |
Aerial being
adjusted
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Patents for IndraNet Mesh
Networking Technology |
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IndraNet
have Patents
in following countries:
Australia, India, Israel, Indonesia, Mexico, North Korea,
South Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Norway, Ukraine, South
Africa, Singapore, Turkey, United States of America, Vietnam,
Eurasia the Russian Federation including Turkmenistan, Belarus,
Tajikistan, Russia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia
and Moldova.
Patents Pending
in: Brazil,
Canada,
Hong Kong, Israel, Japan and Sri Lanka,
European Patent
Office (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech
Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece,
Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein,
Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Monaco, Netherlands,
Poland, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Slovakia, Slovenia,
Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom)
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IndraNet Fractal Networks of Networks Communications
The IndraNet mesh networks are networks of networks
(NoNs).
They inaugurate a new class of communication infrastructure,
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the Networks of
Networks Generation
(NoN-G) of
wireless broadband multimedia
communications.
The building block of IndraNet NoNs are small, low-cost, customer
premises units (CPUs) that called “minders”. These minders are at once
communication units, computers, routers, transceivers, and providers of local
functionality (e.g. premises security, power metering and management,
distributed management of equipment and appliances, and so on). They are
interconnected wirelessly by way of their transceiver component. The NoN-G
IndraNet networks are transmission agnostic, that is, their architecture and
mode of operation is largely indifferent to the mode of transmission used.
The interconnected minders form a multi-layered mesh network
called a FraMe (as in
Fractal Mesh and pronounced “frame”). Each layer
forms a mesh network. The whole FraMe is thus a network of
networks. The layers have all the same quasi-random mesh structure (the nodes of
each mesh network are distributed where people live and/or work). The density of
nodes varies across layers and bandwidth aggregates from one layer to the next,
from the layers used by most end users (the minder layers) to the layers used to
interconnect and mesh-in with long distance communications optical fibre
backbone networks (the hyperminder layers). In other words, the layers of a
FraMe are self-similar, hence their fractal character.
A FraMe has no built in hierarchy. No one minder controls
another and no one layer controls another. All minder devices interact
co-operatively.
The operating software, the MinderOS is based on the Internet
Protocol and fully interoperative with the Internet. It is distributed across
all the minders and all layers. The MinderOS makes the whole NoN-G
IndraNet FraMe self-routing and self-managing without requiring some form of
central command, just like the biochemical signalling NoNs that we
observed in our potato plant (in technical parlance the network is
autopoietic).
The self-similar architecture of the layered mesh enables
solving the key problems encountered in other forms of mesh networking. The
fractal architecture and the related MinderOS software endow the FraMe with the
properties of a “small world” network
In flat mesh networks comprising only one layer, even when they
are of modest size, about 1% of nodes will end up carrying 90% of the traffic
resulting in substantial congestion issues. The small world layered
feature enables the creation of “instant mobile by-passes” thus avoiding
congestion. In flat mesh networks latency issues also arise due to the data
packets having to make too many hops from node to node. This creates excessively
long gaps or response times between any two points in the network. The small
world character enables minimizing the number of hops between two
participating users.
Schematic of an IndraNet FraMe
Many wireless networks are subject to the “cocktail party
syndrome”. As the number of guest arriving at a party increases, the noise
level increases and each guest ends up having to talk louder and louder to be
heard by his or her neighbour. In so doing, each contributes to increasing the
overall noise level until virtually no one can hear each other (in technical
terms this is known as the difficulty of managing the signal-to-noise ratios).
The fractal, layered architecture of the FraMe networks also enables an
effective management of signal-to-noise ratios and spatial re-use of the radio
spectrum.
The emergent properties of the above features mean that
FraMe
networks are eminently scalable, both in terms of the numbers of users serviced
per square kilometre occupied by a network and in terms of the bandwidth, that
is, the communication capacity that can be guaranteed to each end-user. While in
hierarchical infrastructures increasing user numbers and the intensity of usage
usually reduces the amount of capacity available to each user, in a
FraMe
increasing the number of users in any given area increases the available aggregate bandwidth and enables guaranteeing to each user a given amount of
bandwidth at all point in time regardless of the number of co-users and
regardless of the load they may place on the network.
A FraMe is a, secure, multipurpose communication infrastructure.
It can be partitioned into any number of secure and independent virtual private
networks, the IndraNet Intelligent Private Networks or iPNs. These iPNs
can be used for a wide variety of purposes such as health, education,
e-commerce, power grid management, premise security, water and irrigation
management networks and so on. In other words one physical advanced
communication infrastructure provides any number of virtual ones, thus offering
very high economies of scale and potentially substituting for numerous often
inefficient and costly separate legacy infrastructures and intermediaries.
This translate into significantly lower costs of
capital expenditure, rollout, operations, maintenance and upgrades. In turn,
these substantially lower costs make for an increased profitability potential
while simultaneously delivering enhanced services at lower end-user prices
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What is the technology?
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The IndraNet Minder
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How does it work? |
Processor and storage devices linked to
other Minders to form a
FraMe (Fractal
Mesh)
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What can
it do? |
- Data via
Wireless Meshed Broadband
- Energy via
FraMe enabled Intelligent Power Grids
- Goods & People through networked zero emission
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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
FraMe's 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 FraMe's 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,
FraMe's are designed to provide high economies
of scale.
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Guaranteed
bandwidth
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
FraMe's, 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
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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
FraMe's?
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”,
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