Intelligent Superhighway

for the Next Generation

Internet

Jece Mattos
Country Manager - Brazil

June 2023
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The Challenging World of the
Current Internet
Current Issues of the Internet
Managed or Mismanaged?

Internet consists of huge number of independent interconnected

networks (99,868 as of March 2021 and growing) managed by different Data traffic is routed from source to destination through
Internet Service Providers (ISP) series of ISPs using Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)

BGP routing is defined by each ISP based NOT on the

traffic performance but more on the “economic benefit”

Tier 1 ISPs provide long haul

international connections • Prefers routing traffic for “paying” connections
• Wants to quickly offload “unpaid” packets (hot potato), rather
than carrying them across their own network
• Carries packets over very long distances just to get the most
Tier 2 ISPs provide regional coverage financially beneficial path.

Tier 3 ISPs provide local access

The fundamental protocol and infrastructure of Internet

do NOT provide global management and
coordination that focus on delivering high quality data
service to end users.

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Current Issues of the Internet
Whose best route is it?

• John and Mary both in Singapore

Real World Example • John using ISP 1, and Mary using ISP 2
• John streaming video to Mary
ISP US

ISP 1 Singapore
• The “best” route from users’ point of view is obviously a
ISP 2 Singapore “BEST” Route Expected path from ISP 1 directly to ISP 2
From Users
• Expected performance: < 20ms (in the same city),
smooth video

ISP 1 Singapore
• From ISP 1 in Singapore to an ISP in the US (San Jose
“BEST” Route Actually
then Palo Alto) then back to ISP 2 in Singapore
Selected by ISPs
• Actual performance: 611ms! (30 times slower), and
ISP US
choppy video
ISP 2 Singapore

Commercial relationships between ISPs cause biased routing preferences

that often work against the end user interest, which is fast, reliable data
transfer

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Current Issues of the Internet
Complex and Out of Control

Complex Supply Chain of Today’s Global Digital Services

• Complex sets of thousands of building blocks of myriad of digital services

interconnected with each other
• Out of the control of any company or organization
• Causing tens of thousands of network outages every year

Significant Network Outages in 2021 That Had Global Implication

Network Traffic Loss, ~1 Network Traffic Loss, ~2 CDN service down, ~1 DNS service down, ~7 Network Traffic Loss + routing
hour hour hour hour issues, ~2 hour

The Internet outages are expected to increase as the complexity of

digital supply increases. This will cause serious challenges to the
reliability and quality of data transmission, especially when the world is
moving toward Metaverse, Rich IoT and Web 3.0 where the high quality
transmission of large bandwidth data is critical.

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The World is Moving Towards Metaverse, Rich IoT and Web 3.0

Broadcast/Video/Streaming Telemedicine Rich IoT E-Sports / Blockchain

• Super Hi-Definition video and content creation, • Telemedicine/remote surgery • Vehicle to Everything (V2X), currently • Cloud-Gaming
HD to 4K to 8K • Teleconsultation with fully integration there are over 236 million connected • E-Sport
• Live streaming and telepresence with of medical equipment and imaging vehicles in the world and expected to
extremely immersive Quality of Experience system reach 400 million by 2025, each
(QoE) transmitting 20~200 megabytes of data
• Very low latency communication and
everyday
• movie theatre screens interactivity
• Rich IoT, 64 billion connected devices by
• large screen TVs
2025
• 4K/8K VR/AR helmet/hologram
Critical Demand

Large Bandwidth Extremely Reliable Very Low Latency Immersive and Interactive

• 2Mbps for HD SLA requirement of 99.9999% and even Fast response and low latency with sub Highly immersive experience and real-time
• 30Mbps for 4K higher 20ms delay interactivity
• 100Mbps and beyond

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Current Internet Becomes the Bottleneck for the Future

Current Industry Solution

• Leased Line
Private and dedicated line • MPLS
• Satellite

• Increased reliability • Very high cost (X100 the cost of

and performance Internet)
• Slow to deploy. Takes a month even
longer
• Still having risk of single point of failure

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 How to meet
the challenges
of the future?

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Who are we?
 Who are we?

An industry leader in professional video A technology innovator with world-class R&D team that is always at
transport technologies and services for the forefront.
over 20 years.

A service provider that is dedicated to High A trusted partner chosen by major global telcos and content providers.
Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of
Experience (QoE) for video transmission and
data communication needs of today and
tomorrow.

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Caton Cloud and Media XStream
 Caton Cloud

Caton Cloud is a GLOBAL Media XStream is the KEY service An ecosystem that will
CLOUD PLATFORM offering that provides High Quality Real- grow and expand in the
MULTIPLE SERVICES time Data Stream Transmission future

Services
• Real-time data stream transmission
Media XStream • Highly efficient and extreme reliability
NetScope • Real-time network health condition diagnosis and analysis
CatonID • Unified user authentication and management system
TrueTime • Global time synchronization (<10ms)
… • …

Caton Cloud Platform

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Media XStream – High Quality Data Stream Service

• Cloud-native service • Pioneering double-layer Control Plane architecture

• Industry-leading AI-based and deep-learning-powered
Intelligent
• AI-based intelligent routing traffic routing

• On top of a global network infrastructure

• Very high bandwidth (> 100Mbps/stream) capability with
• Caton’s continuous ambition and forward-looking Fast low latency
innovation
• Fully meshed Global Backbone + redundant local
Reliable connection
• Hi QoS/QoE, delivering an end-to-end SLA > 99.9999%
Core
Network

Low Cost • Overlay on top of public Internet

SDK / API

User SDK / API User • Full cloud-native architecture easily scales to large number
Application Scalable of users and capacity.
Application

Data Plane
Control Plane
• Adaptive to myriad of industries and applications of today
Flexible and tomorrow
Controller

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Key Advantages of Media XStream
Three levels of key innovation lie at the foundation of the outstanding
performance of Media XStream.

AI-based Smart Caton Transport Global Backbone +

Traffic Engineering Protocol (CTP) Edge Network
Suite

The traffic is The data streams The underlying super

managed intelligently are turned into highway network
and efficiently supercars

01 02 03

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 AI-Based Smart Traffic Engineering
Industry leading Double-Layer Control Plane Architecture with AI-Based Traffic Engineering

Master Intelligence Layer • Holistic view of the whole network

• Creating a “Master Plan” using AI-based Traffic Engineering algorithm
• The Master Plan consists of multiple routes with top performance between the source and the
destination

Distributed Intelligence Layer • Constantly monitoring health condition for links in Master Plan
• When a certain link performance deteriorates, the link dynamically switches to a better route in the
Master Plan
• The switch happens very fast (<20ms) based on local intelligence

Key Benefits

Robust and reliable SLA > 99.9999% Ultra-low latency

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 Caton Transport Protocols (CTP) Suite
Patented proprietary Network Engineering that turns data streams into super cars

Mbps • Greatly increases bandwidth

5X 39 X 62 X 63 X 72 X throughput when compared
with standard TCP
• Throughput much higher
• Patented industry leading FEC and ARQ than that of standard TCP
methods and packet loss prediction • 62 times higher when
• More than 40 algorithms and deep learning network delay is 200ms.
approaches
Round Trip Delay
• Secured with encapsulation, AES encryption
and connection whitelisting

Key Benefits

Fast and efficient Secured, high bandwidth capability

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 Global Backbone + Edge Network
Global backbone and edge network built on top of public internet

Fast and efficient Global • Core PoPs connected by Tier-

Backbone 1/Tier-2 network links
• Edge PoPs with multiple local
Well-covered Edge for easy
Internet links for fast and reliable
access by end users
access

Robustness against ISPs’

• All PoPs deployed on multiple ISPs
biased routing preference

Current global coverage of 100+ PoPs Cost efficient and agile • All PoPs deployed on public Internet
in 30 cities and growing! • Cloud-native for operational flexibility
Key Benefits

Very flexible and Scalable to thousands of Fast deployment of service

low cost customers globally within minutes

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 See the Media XStream in action
Talking point:

The video shows how data is being transmitted from Singapore to

Oregon using Caton Media XStream.

In the video, you can see that the best route for sending data can
change in real-time. At each moment, different points along the route
collect information about the network, like how fast the data is being
sent and if any pieces of data are being lost. Based on this
information, each point decides which route is the best option for the
data at that time.

Imagine there are multiple paths the data can take, and each path is
given a score. The path with the highest score is chosen for sending
the data. If a point along the way realises there's a better path, it will
start sending the data along that new path instead.

The video uses colours and lines to represent the paths. The yellow
dashed line represents the previous path, and the green line
represents the current best path chosen by the data. When the
system sees that the green path is better than the previous one, it
automatically switches to the better path. This is called path
switching because the data keeps flowing along the chosen path.

This way of transmitting data ensures that there are no interruptions

Sample Core Video
or lost data packets. Each point makes its own decision and is only
responsible for the current step in the data's journey.

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 Experience Media XStream in Real-time

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eXperience Level Agreement (XLA)
First in the industry to introduce XLA
eXperience Level Agreement (XLA)
First in the industry to introduce XLA

01 Highest Service Availability 02 Packet Delivery Report

Most reliable end-to-end service with Complete monitoring of your network performance from source to
99.9999% SLA for peace of mind. destination for full accountability.

Success Rate: Packet Loss Delay & Jitter

• Value • Duration • Average
• Maximum • Packet Counts • Maximum
• Minimum • Lost Packet Counts • 95th Percentile
• 5th Percentile • Packet Loss Rate • 99th Percentile
• 1st Percentile • 99.99th Percentile
• 0.01th Percentile

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eXperience Level Agreement (XLA)
First in the industry to introduce XLA

Diagram 2 - AI Switching between 16 to 30 Nov 2022

03 AI Switching Report
8000

7779
7000

Real-time monitoring of the AI 6000

5870
switching performance for the most 5000
5209
5656
efficient route. 4000

3000
3046 4035
2981
2028 2887
2000 3082
2715
2261 3049
1000 2757
0
16/nov
17/nov
18/nov
19/nov
20/nov
21/nov
22/nov
23/nov
24/nov 355
25/nov
26/nov
• Average: 3,580 switches per day 27/nov
28/nov
29/nov
30/nov
• Lowest recorded: 355 switches per day
Diagram 1 - AI Switching In a Day
• Highest recorded: 7,779 switches per day

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eXperience Level Agreement (XLA)
First in the industry to introduce XLA

04 Content Level Report

Most comprehensive video and audio monitoring for picture-perfect

quality delivery.

Video Report Audio Report

• No Video • No Audio
• Freeze Frame • Audio Silence
• Video Blocking Detection • Audio Codec Mismatch
• Decoding Error • Audio Channels Mismatch
• Black Frame Detection • Audio Language Descriptor Mismatch
• Colour-Space Mismatch
• Video Codec Mismatch
• Aspect Ratio Mismatch
• Frame Rate Mismatch

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Real World Use Cases
For Content Distribution
Deployment - Proven Results from Real World Use Cases
Real World Use Case 1 – Content Contribution

Core
Network

SDK / API

SDK / API
Taichung
Intercontinental
Baseball Stadium US NYC – Encompass IDC
PHILIPPINES - SUBIC BAY
• Source Content – WBC 2023 event, Data Plane TELEPORT
Taiwan Tournament, 13-day events Control Plane
• 40Mbps MPTS
• From Taichung Stadium to US NYC Controller • Destination: USA NYC Encompass IDC
Encompass IDC ( Distribute to • Live sport game contribution service
Encompass End customer)

• End to End Service; Low Latency and high bit • Event-based service - 13 days, highly praised by MLB,
rate transmission Actual Encompass, and Fox.
Requirement • On site service support Performance • During the entire event, there was no error report or signal
• Very high reliability interruption

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Deployment - Proven Results from Real World Use Cases
Real World Use Case 2 – Content Distribution

Core
Network
• Major League
Baseball

SDK / API

SDK / API
ELTA TV CTS ELEVEN
SPORTS
• US Encompass

Data Plane
• Source Content – MLB 2023 season Control Plane • Destination: Taiwan, ELTA TV, CTS and
Live game Eleven Sports MCR
• Location – US NYC Encompass Data Controller • Service: End to End service, including
Center game booking, signal contribution,
• Day to Day operation – Up to max 9 monitoring and 24 x 7 service support
games simultaneously per day (Each • Live Sport game contribution service
Stream 20Mbps)

• End to End Service; Low Latency • Production Service, day-to-day operations

• Cost Effective Solution Actual • Caton Managed Services are a success with all customers,
Requirement Performance
• Contribution Service from US NYV to 3 x without any reported fatal issues
Taiwan End Customer location • Serving 75% Taiwan MLB contribution service market

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Proven Results from Real World Use Cases
Real World Use Case 3 – Content Distribution

Core
Network • US-based Global
• China’s largest
OTT platform with
media company
Monthly Active
Users (MAU) of 2.5

SDK / API

SDK / API
million

Data Plane
Control Plane

Controller
• Source: Beijing
• 4 HD linear channels
• 24 X 7 operation • Destination: end users worldwide

• High availability Actual

Requirement • 0 error since operation commenced
• Mass distribution Performance
in October 2022

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Deployment - Proven Results from Real World Use Cases
Real World Use Case 4 – Content Contribution

Core
Network
China International
Communications Co.
LTD

SDK / API

SDK / API
• Source Content – 9 x linear channel, Data Plane
MPTS – up to 40Mbps Control Plane
• Destination: Canada Roger IDC and Bell
• Location – China, Beijing
IDC
• 24 x 7 operation Controller • The 9 x channel signals are then
• From China to Canada ( 2 x location;
distributed from Rogers and Bell to their
Roger and Bell)
end users

• End to End Service; Low Latency and high bit • Production Service, day-to-day operations
rate transmission up to (45Mbps) Actual • Caton Managed Services are a success with all customers,
Requirement • 24 x 7 service support (9 x linear channels) Performance without any reported fatal issues
• Very high reliability • Replace the IPEL Leased line, SLA improve to 99.9999%

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Deployment - Proven Results from Real World Use Cases
Real World Use Case 5 – Content Contribution

Core
Network
UK Arqiva

SDK / API

SDK / API
PHILIPPINES - SUBIC BAY TELEPORT
PHILIPPINES - SUBIC BAY
Data Plane TELEPORT
• Source Content – 25Mbps (MPTS) , 1+1
Control Plane
• Location – UK London
• 24 x 7 operation
• Destination: Subic Philippines
• From UK to Subic Philippines ( Satellite Controller
• Satellite Contribution service
Teleport Contribution)

• End to End Service; Low Latency and high bit rate • Production Service, day-to-day operations
transmission (25Mbps, multiple linear channels) Actual • Caton Managed Services are a success with all customers,
Requirement • 24 x 7 service support Performance without any reported fatal issues
• Very high reliability (1+1 diversity) • Upgrade to Media XStream, SLA improves to 99.9999%

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Customer Trial (POC) - Proven Results from Real World Use Cases
Real World Use Case 6 – Content Contribution

Core
Network Taipei Tokyo Beijing

Hong Kong Frankfurt

SDK / API

SDK / API
China-based Global Cloud
Service Provider
Data Plane
Control Plane
• Source: CDS data center in
Virginia, US Controller
• 5 X 80Mbps streams
• 24 X 7 operation • Destination: media data centers in 5 cities

• Very high bandwidth After 2 weeks • 0 error for 3 streams

Requirement
• Very high reliability of POC • 99.9999% for 2 streams

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Deployment - Proven Results from Real World Use Cases
Real World Use Case 7 – Live Events

Core
Network

SDK / API

SDK / API
Boy George 2023 Live
Concert (Los Angeles, USA)
Worldwide to 200+
PHILIPPINES cinemas BAY
- SUBIC
Data Plane TELEPORT
• Source Content – USA LA, Boy George Control Plane
Live Concert
• From US to over 200 cinema in Controller
• Destination: Over 200 Cinemas worldwide
worldwide • Live concert contribution service

• Very Low Latency and high video quality service • Event-based service - 1 day Live event
Actual
Requirement • Very high reliability • During the entire event, there was no error report or signal
Performance
• Global coverage interruption

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Thank You