This results in a greatly improved return on assets for carriers' infrastructure investment by increasing revenue opportunities and reducing both capital and operating costs. A service provider can configure a customer's service request by offering a combination of committed bandwidth and a 'burst' capacity that is shared and over-subscribed with other customers who have a similar requirement. Multiples of the current revenues can be generated from their existing infrastructure investment.
Additional revenue is gathered from multiple packet-oriented services.
Coriolis Networks is the first company to move the concept of over-subscription from an individual network element to the entire optical metro transport network. This automatic provisioning capability for data services operates without human intervention to greatly reduce operations costs. The OSDM bandwidth allocation approach for 'bursty' data transmission is made within the payload structure of the optical transport. While not required, it can also be pre-reserved for packet data traffic. This is useful for packet data traffic service levels that require a minimum bandwidth guarantee for packet flows.