What is Super-Connectivity?
Aspen Networks has developed a next generation connectivity solution for connected vehicles that virtualizes the wireless service provider infrastructure. This enables automobile OEMs to build cars with multiple, session persistent, redundant links to wireless services. With Altos module, automobile manufacturers will be able to provide custom content, cloud applications, telematics, and secure OTA updates to every vehicle, regardless of location.
We call it super-connectivity: the virtualization of wireless service provider networks, the continuity of sessions across re-routes for all vehicle applications, and consistent smooth application performance. Such a solution needs to be intimately application aware, and also intimately tuned to network conditions in time and space.
Super-Connectivity, unlike conventional router based redundancy and load balancing solutions,
has two properties:
(1) Application Continuity - when a network fault is corrected by moving a flow to a
redundant path, the existing user application session is not disrupted, which means no
manual re-start of session is ever needed
(2) Application Smoothness - which means application aware placement of sessions on
the best available network path available at any time, by active measurement of
applications across time and space – providing each embedded application predictability
and performance, across a variety of metrics, at all times
The ALTOS Vehicle Super-Connectivity Module (SCM) provides a robust, multi-path connection for
vehicles to enable application continuity over any network path in any location. The SCM
works with Satellite, Cellular and other connectivity options. Users will never experience a
break in the application, for example ADAS mapping data, OTA firmware/security updates,
breakdown or emergency voice calls, video, infotainment, etc