ScaleBox - Transparent Network Capacity Scaling in a Box

ScaleBox is a culmination of bandwidth conservation techniques developed by Dr. Striegel including enhanced packet caching and stealth multicast coupled with novel techniques for session acceleration and latent synchronization discovery.

• PC = Packet Caching - Packet payloads are tokenized if the hash of the payload yields a hit in the cache.
• SM = Stealth Multicast - Packets are enqueued temporarily to aggregate multiple identical payloads into a single multicast packet. The packet is then converted back from multicast before reaching the client.
• PF = TCP Pre-Fetch - As bandwidth conservation techniques consume much less than their fair bandwidth share on the network, pre-fetching allows the flow to take advantage of that bandwidth slack. In short, hits on the cache are accelerated to enable a fast pre-fetch when future tokenized packets are highly likely. The ramp up time is then based on the local round trip time (LRTT) rather than the actual RTT, offering a dramatically accelerated content grab while still taking significantly less bandwidth on the bottleneck links.