Brix Networks Issued Patent by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.- Converged Service Assurance Company's Hardware Time-stamping Method Delivers Critical Quality Metrics To Assure Next-Generation Services CHELMSFORD, Mass. -- Brix Networks, the leading provider of converged service assurance solutions, announced today it has been issued a patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office The United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO or USPTO) is an agency in the United States Department of Commerce that provides patent protection to inventors and businesses for their inventions, and trademark registration for product and intellectual property for the company's hardware time-stamping method. U. S. Patent No. 7,058,020 covers a technique for time-stamping a data packet, which permits the measurement of network characteristics - such as one-way and round-trip latency and jitter A flicker or fluctuation in a transmission signal or display image. The term is used in several ways, but it always refers to some offset of time and space from the norm. For example, in a network transmission, jitter would be a bit arriving either ahead or behind a standard clock cycle - to within one microsecond One millionth of a second. See space/time and ohnosecond. (unit) microsecond - One millionth (10^-6) of a second. , and eliminates the uncertainties typically associated with software processing and system load. Hardware time-stamping guarantees highly accurate and scalable quality of service measurements that are required for assuring today's real-time, revenue-generating Internet Protocol See Internet and TCP/IP. (networking) Internet Protocol - (IP) The network layer for the TCP/IP protocol suite widely used on Ethernet networks, defined in STD 5, RFC 791. IP is a connectionless, best-effort packet switching protocol. (IP) services, such as Voice over IP (VoIP) and IP television (IPTV (Internet Protocol TV) Also called "TV over IP," IPTV delivers scheduled TV programs and video-on-demand (VOD) via the IP protocol and digital streaming techniques used to watch video on the Internet. ). All members of the Brix family of hardware Verifiers can time-stamp incoming, outgoing, and monitored packets. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Kaynam Hedayat, vice president, engineering, and CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. at Brix Networks, who, along with Steve DesRochers, the company's vice president, solutions, is one of the holders of the patent, "The significance of our patented hardware time-stamping technology is that it gives our customers peace of mind regarding the accuracy and reliability of their quality test results, and that they precisely reflect the true behavior of their networks. By balancing innovation and execution, we are delivering advanced converged service assurance solutions to our customers around the world." About Brix Networks Brix Networks is the leading provider of converged service assurance solutions that allow the world's largest service providers and enterprises to offer reliable and high-quality experiences in voice, video, data, and mobile services to their customers, partners, and employees. The company brings a proven heritage of IP expertise unique to the service assurance marketplace, and collaborates closely with its customers and partners to assure the delivery of any IP-based service, over any network, to any endpoint. For more information, visit www.brixnet.com, or call 978-367-5600/1-888-BRIXNET. Brix Networks, Brix, Brixnet, and the Brix Networks logo are trademarks of Brix Networks, Inc. |
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