Routers Overview

Routers can be seen as a node whose only purpose is to move data from one place to another, in contrast to a hand held device that may also add data to the network. Routers may be wireless, wired, or a combination of both. They may be used in WISP networks, corporate networks or military/first responder networks.

A Variety of Routers

The challenge for routers in a dynamic network is to find a stable, low latency, low jitter route. They need to maintain this route even if connections are constantly breaking and reforming.

The OrderOne Networks protocol can help meet this challenge.

Large Network Sizes and Low Bandwidth
The OrderOne Networks protocol is able to organize unpartitioned networks with 100,000's of nodes while never consuming more than 1% of available bandwidth. Alternative routing protocols are only able to organize a few hundred nodes and the control bandwidth required grows at an exponential rate.

Dense Networks
Just as large networks are difficult for alternative routing protocols, dense networks are also difficult. A dense network is a network where each node is in radio range of a large number of other neighbors.

For example, a node might be in range of 200+ other nodes. Conventional routing protocols either fail completely, or simply ignore 95% of the available neighbors. This is called 'neighbor pruning' or 'topology pruning'.

The OrderOne Networks protocol can connect with and exchange routing packets with hundreds of neighbor nodes, while never needing more then one small fixed control packet every time interval.

Small Footprint
The protocol requires approximately 85K and the amount of run time memory is tunable to the device. The CPU requirements are also adjustable.

Broadly Compatible
The OrderOne Networks protocol may be installed on virtually any router. It is independent of OS and hardware. It uses no floating-point math and is endian independent.