TimeFluxTM
Lightwaves has developed a new wire-line networking technology, TimeFlux. This technology is revolutionary in its approach to the current home networking challenge in several important ways. It works on any wire type, including telephone twisted pair (TTP), coaxial cable, and power line at substantially greater speeds than any other networking technology commonly in use today. In addition, TimeFlux technology also guarantees the bandwidth and provides consistent latency as needed for every device on the network. This means that several High Definition Television (HDTV) and Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) streams can peacefully coexist with hundreds of other Internet devices including computers, gaming, security, energy management, home automation, and many more. This performance can be achieved with the wires existing in the home today, thus greatly reducing the cost of installation and easing the management burdens for new digital service offerings.
Fundamentally, TimeFlux technology is Ethernet, capitalizing on its strengths but remedying many of its shortcomings. TimeFlux technology facilitates the use of any wire instead of the strict requirement of category 5 twisted pair, implements a Guarantee of Service (GoS) to augment Quality of Service (QoS), and, perhaps most importantly, alleviates the need to rewire countless homes both in the United States and across the globe in order to achieve these objectives.
QoS is a methodology for traditional networks that prioritizes real time Internet traffic, such as video and audio, over all other Internet traffic. QoS schemes have operational difficulty as the number of real time streams and the number of devices on a network increase. TimeFlux technology augments QoS with a new, simpler method, GoS. With GoS, every device is given exactly the bandwidth it needs in a separate logical stream which is independent of all other Internet traffic. TimeFlux technology was designed from the ground up to handles the strenuous demands of multiple streams of HDTV / IPTV while still providing connectivity for hundreds of other devices.
TimeFlux technology uses a train of uniquely formed, short duration pulses to convey digital data. It functions by the generation and detection of pulses instead of the modulation of radio frequency waves, a technique used in virtually all other networking technologies. These pulses can spread over wide frequency ranges and can utilize every available frequency in a particular wire type both to improve detectability and maximize bandwidth for that wire. TimeFlux is the only high-performance networking technology that can operate across all wired media.
Today’s homes have plenty of available wiring; unfortunately, most of this wiring is unable to meet the needs of traditional networking technologies. Rewiring homes to correct this problem is costly and, with TimeFlux technology, is now unnecessary. TimeFlux technology is able to use existing wiring in the home such as TTP, coaxial cable, and power lines for digital service offerings including HDTV and IPTV.
TimeFlux is a revolutionary networking technology which radically improves upon the deficiencies of its predecessors and creates a gateway to the truly connected home.
TimeFlux is a trademark of Lightwaves