Gene Sequence Reduction To Improve Corporate Data Flow
Method Used To Decode The Human Genome Optimise WAN Traffic
30 August 2001, 1 pm GMT
The growing amount and complexity of network traffic is overwhelming corporate networks.
Network expenses and complexity are a challenge for IT managers seeking to keep up with increasing amount of data flooding over their networks.
Despite the availability of backbone fiber, bandwidth requires expensive equipment to make it useable.
While bandwidth is plentiful at the backbone, there is a shortage of high-speed, local-access connections where businesses need it, at the last mile. In many cases, the flow of data traffic and the deployment of increasingly bandwidth-intensive applications.
A company called Peribit Networks, has designed a product that harnesses the principles used in the mapping of DNA to drastically improve IT efficiency.
The company's Molecular Sequence Reduction (MSR) technology employs patent-pending algorithms that identify and eliminate previously undetected repetitions in data traffic flowing across wide area networks (WANs).
Peribit MSR allows businesses to discover and recover lost network capacity while improving application performance and reducing IT costs.
Molecular Sequence Reduction Use of DNA Methods to Attack IT Problems
MSR technology leverages the repetitive sequence analysis techniques used to examine DNA patterns in computational molecular biology to identify and eliminate data flow and pattern similarities over wide area networks.
Peribit finds that between 70% and 90% of WAN capacity is littered with useless, repetitive data.
These non-informative repetitions waste valuable network resources and severely degrade network efficiency and application performance.
By identifying, and then eliminating these repetitions, Peribit's Sequence Reduction products allow enterprises to harness drastic increases in network capacity over their existing network infrastructure.
MSR technology operates on all traffic that traverses the network -- application, content, protocol or transmission technology.
While conducting his PhD research in Biomedical Informatics at Stanford University, Peribit's founder, Amit Singh discovered a link between the growing volumes of traffic traversing the public and private networks and the computational models used to study genomic sequences and DNA. Singh's work at Stanford focused on computational molecular biology -- using computers to analyze and understand the vast amounts of bio-molecular data being generated by projects such as the Human Genome Project. During this time, Singh became familiar with using algorithms to find patterns within or across bio-molecular sequences and structures. He realized that the techniques used to find patterns in DNA could be adapted and optimized to identify repetitions in continuous streams of network data.
“For years, I've looked for ways to get more data over my networks more efficiently and for less money”, comments Shawn Farshchi, CIO of BroadVision.
“I've experimented with various caching, QoS and compression technologies. While there was some improvement in traffic flow, they really functioned as stopgap measures.
This technology allows me to drastically increase the flow of data over my network by five times instantly - without the pain of ordering expensive bandwidth and then waiting for availability, and without any changes to my routers or switches”
The SR-50 is currently shipping and pricing begins at $20,000.
Peribit Networks is a privately held company. In January 2001, Peribit received first-round funding of $10.4 million from top-tier venture capital firms Accel Partners and Foundation Capital.
www.peribit.com.
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