Article in newspaper Svenska Dagbladet
Layer & Mesh launches the world’s fastest network.
Now everyone can receive 100,000 Mbps and 0.1 ms ping.
Layer & Mesh is developing a new and record-breaking network for the next generation of platforms, private clouds, gaming, the Internet, and Intranet. Unlike other Internet operators, Layer & Mesh works in all data layers and meshes all networks. What we do is install both passive and active equipment throughout the communication chain. We connect everything like a number of overlapping spider webs where the information can be moved through many clusters of redundant nodes. The traffic is meshed before it makes its way on out to private networks or the Internet. “We are unique in working with the TRILL protocol, which enables a fully automated load balancing between all connections and points,” says Daniel Persson, CEO of Layer & Mesh.
Layer & Mesh specializes in fiber technology, which is also known as layer 1 in its physical form. When talking about smartphones and 5G, the air is layer 1, a so-called physical layer. Neither air nor fiberglass contains any information whatsoever rather the information must be provided in layer 2, the switched layer. Today, we are unparalleled in layer 2 traffic — you could say this is the network before the Internet. Layer 3 is called the Internet, the layer that people are familiar with. Layer 3 is the routed IP traffic that reaches both households and businesses via routers. When layer 3 traffic is addressed out to everyone on the Internet, it is more vulnerable to denial of service attacks and intrusions than layer 2 traffic. Daniel believes that a great amount of business-critical data and gaming will occur in layer 2 going forward. This eliminates capacity, security, and availability problems, which can cause a high ping or downtime, for example.
By passing light through the fiber, you can send information from one switch to another. The impulses of light are digitized in the switches; it is in this particular layer that Layer & Mesh excels. We have a unique and flat network, which is easy to scale and load balance. If a dark fiber is full of traffic, the traffic chooses an alternate route on its own. Some call this AI, but those who work with this everyday call it machine learning. Layer & Mesh has thousands of routes for traffic between any two points in Stockholm. A normal operator only works with one route.
With this unique distribution of data traffic, we have created speed increases of around 10 billion times compared to the capacity of the 90’s fax modem. Our network is now significantly faster than hardware’s read and write speeds to storage media. We’ll say it again, our network is now significantly faster than hardware’s read and write speeds to storage media. It is now faster to transport data in distances of 10km between two switches in layer 2 than the time it takes to transport data between CPU, RAM, and SSD memory in a computer or smartphone. This is the beginning of the next technological revolution. We must think outside the framework of conventional science to keep up in this race.
What is to be achieved with this new performance? There are countless applications that will affect our everyday lives, including a notable positive environmental impact. Anyone who has played computer games has certainly experienced a high ping or latency, which results in the game lagging. Both VR and AR games will set completely new standards for communication performance. We are seeing rapid development and focus on shared resources. It is advantageous when performance is available on the platform or in the private cloud. For example, once you have registered an account on a gaming platform, you may purchase playing time where performance is included. “This has the knock-on effect that you do not need to have an expensive gaming computer,” says Daniel Persson. Today, computers are an untapped resource, like cars they are parked in homes, at businesses, and sit unused much of the day. An enormous waste with a massive environmental impact.
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Already in 2018, Layer & Mesh deployed the first housing association in Stockholm with 100,000 Mbps layer 2 traffic and 10,000 Mbps layer 3 Internet traffic. We also launched access to a clustered supercomputer, which you can rent on demand.
Those who live in this housing association could in practice buy an entire server hall with, for example, 1,800 CPU cores, 2TB of RAM, and 100TB of storage for two days and then shut down the service. The ability to share resources and quickly, efficiently scale computing power will rapidly change the world. In the past, only government agencies and large universities have been able to build infrastructure and supercomputers. Now even private operators like Layer & Mesh have the opportunity. We have the world’s most powerful metro network, which can directly convey the service to people’s living rooms without loss of capacity. We begin by offering these infrastructure services through resellers and service providers who build next generation platforms, such as game developers. The infrastructure is already available in Stockholm, and we are now beginning our expansion in the rest of the country. “This is going to be so much fun,” concludes Daniel Persson.
