Applications
Voice over IP
With voice over IP (VoIP), service providers extend their existing broadband data network to provide additional services that increase revenue, reduce churn, and create up-selling opportunities. Previously, unique or specialized equipment was required to support data and voice traffic. Many municipal governments desire to leverage a broadband infrastructure to take advantage of the dramatic cost-savings VoIP offers by avoiding monthly calling fees and improving communications efficiency for mobile field staff. Public safety officials may also benefit from VoIP communications as a supplement to traditional radio and cellular communications. Today, voice is considered a fundamental requirement to building a broadband service infrastructure.
SkyPilot's solution is a scalable and resilient mesh network architected to support the Quality-of-Service (QoS) required for carrying converged voice and data traffic. To efficiently deliver high quality voice traffic, SkyPilot employs traffic prioritization, traffic segmentation, load balancing, traffic shaping, and bandwidth management to ensure that voice packets are given low-latency, low-jitter performance. And SkyPilot's SyncMesh protocol utilizes a GPS clock to provide network-wide timing for deterministic throughput, delivering latency under 12 milliseconds per hop and effectively allowing the network to transport prioritized traffic over multiple hops.
In addition to QoS guarantees for VoIP traffic, a SkyPilot mesh delivers fault tolerance and redundancy to maximize system uptime, resulting in a carrier-class, multi-service broadband wireless network. With SkyPilot, carriers are able to dramatically increase average revenue per user (ARPU), converting off-net traffic to on-net, and increasing subscriber penetration and retention to achieve long-term customer and business objectives.