Topoz Pty Ltd
ACN 092 089 444
ABN 76 092 089 444
www.topoz.net
photo of AK sitting in the Topoz office
email address
145.07°E, 37.80°S
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

This is the official web site of Alan U. Kennington's one-person company `Topoz'.

Topoz Pty Ltd
ACN 092 089 444
ABN 76 092 089 444
A proprietary company limited by shares,
registered on 20 March 2000 under the
Corporations Law of South Australia.

Nature of business
Research, development and design of network modules for traffic shaping, policing, arbitration, filtering, conditioning and testing, incorporating advanced queueing algorithms.

Mission
To improve the world's telecommunications through research, development, prototyping, licensing, manufacture and supply of innovative network components.

Vision
An Internet with predictable quality of service, where Topoz network modules implement sophisticated service level guarantees in an optimal fashion so that the Internet can move from the era of `best effort' (the 20th century) to a new era of assured service levels (the 21st century), efficiently and economically.

Personnel
Director: Alan U. Kennington
Shareholder: Alan U. Kennington (10000 shares)

Planned products
If all goes to plan, I'll be offering one or more of the following network module products by the end of year 2001.

All of these could operate in the ATM layer, AAL5 layer or IP layer.

Statistical Shaping was invented by Alan Kennington in March 2000. This idea is very simple indeed. Instead of merely observing and trying to forecast the statistical behaviour of subscribers to packet networks, the statistical behaviour should be controlled by shapers. Thus the longer-term statistical behaviour over hours or even days, as compared with each subscriber's SLA, should be the basis for prioritisation of traffic from each subscriber.

Topoz Pty Ltd SNMP Private Enterprise Number = 1.3.6.1.4.1.15987

photo of AK at clipboard in old Topoz office
The old Topoz office in Thebarton 2000/2001.

Go to Alan Kennington's IT background.
Go to definition of white paper.
Go to Alan Kennington's home page.

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Copyright (C) 2000-2011, Topoz Pty Ltd
ACN 092 089 444
ABN 76 092 089 444