Better, Faster, and Cheaper Mobile Access

The Tech

Trinity Mobile Networks’ overlay software-defined networking platform, TrinitySDN, makes cellular and Wi-Fi networks appear to end users as a single network. TrinitySDN was designed from the ground up for smartphones and other moving, multi-interface, and battery constrained wireless devices. Our platform enables interface and channel bonding, seamless handoffs between connection types, mesh connections between devices and provides an always best connected service to improve QoS for both VoIP and buffered data. TrinitySDN coordinates cellular, Wi-Fi, and mesh connections for devices running our client-side software, Jumpnet (available as a white-label solution). Jumpnet runs as an app on iOS and Android devices. TrinitySDN helps network operators control their subscribers' QoS while on Wi-Fi and improve network performance.

TrinitySDN virtualizes all of a device's connections and aggregates connection-states across the network. This provides network operators with a unified view of the entire network topology, including across heterogeneous networks such as cellular and Wi-Fi. The central server analyzes available connections and maintains an Always Best Connected state for each device in the network. Network operators can choose to configure their network for maximum throughput, maximum coverage, lowest operating cost, and other optimizations. Among other benefits, TrinitySDN enables automatic network reconfiguration with human-in-the-loop override and seamless handoffs between heterogeneous networks and connection types.

The Trinity central server coordinates direct connections between devices to form a mesh network. This expands the coverage area of Wi-Fi access points and increases the throughput of cellular networks. Devices with good Wi-Fi connections relay their signal to other devices that would otherwise be out of range of a Wi-Fi hotspot. Devices use more Wi-Fi and less cellular data, providing everyone faster and less expensive wireless service. Devices use less high-powered cellular connections and more low-power Wi-Fi. In addition, battery policies limit the drain of any individual device.

Our platform gives network operators incredible new abilities and control over their network, including:

• Unified network monitoring across multiple heterogeneous connection types
• Software-defined multipath transmissions
• Channel bonding over Wi-Fi, cellular, and other wired and wireless interfaces
• Seamless handoffs between heterogeneous networks (e.g. Wi-Fi to cellular)
• Automatic and human-in-the-loop remote network state configuration
• Connection-agnostic networking stack
• Real-time diagnostics of network use, coverage, and signal strength
• Create secure virtual sub-networks
• Increased coverage area of wireless access points
• Increased performance on the edge of networks
• Improved QoS indoors
• Virtualization of connection-states of all devices