First you have to know that the router creates a network on top of a network, so that's two networks to move one packet of data.  The fact that this type of hardware has always been needed for data networks is, in fact, Ethernet's fundamental flaw.  Secondarily, this flaw forces wireless networks to think like wired networks, using half of the available bandwidth just to manage the network, while losing the best feature of broadcasting...the ability to send a single transmission to an unlimited number of devices as traditional broadcasters have always been able to do.  The amount of bandwidth needed to manage the network is termed "overhead", and so where WiFi and Internet of Things protocols use 50% overhead in their best case when all things are perfect, we have reduced this overhead to less than 2% in actual demonstrations.  Therefore, we have solved packet efficiency, with the primary benefit to overall performance and overall security, which are both functions of packet efficiency.  

The technology is called Distributed Queue Switch Architecture, and like all other broadcast networks, it requires no middle hardware because it does not require traditional routing.  It was originally invented for cable TV fiber and coax hybrids, however, the first two demonstrations have been in the long range wireless Internet of Things' Zigbee and LoRa radios, winning IEEE and Google Research Awards.  

DQ switching was also featured in two 2019 IEEE publications for fixing the main problem in 5G/LTE which is why they featured it in the Vehicle Technology section.  So where today's common wisdom is to force cars to "see" like humans, our technology would simply put all of the vehicles on logical mesh network so that they could know each others' position with or without line of sight.  Of course, DQ switching would also improve the massive computational task that multiple vehicle sensors use to interpret the physical world.  Ultimately, with ~100% packet efficiency and the resulting stable Quality of Service in any condition, the mesh/star hybrid network could grow infinitely, eliminating autonomous vehicular homicides.  

Finally, massive energy savings and a huge reduction in pulse EMF pollution would also be byproducts of DQ switching, as would the reinstatement of telecommunications privacy laws which could cross over from the Public Switched Telephone Networks to broadband and the Internet of Things.

"Distributed Queuing (DQ) is a revolutionary technology that will change the way that wireless networks operate in the future" - CTTC, Barcelona

M2M Bell is currently a project team at USC's Blackstone Launchpad, and since we are modeling a distributed public utility, we will be structured as a public benefit corporation.  The intellectual property we are commercializing is known as DQ switching, which was originally invented for Cable TV broadcasting long before semiconductors existed that were fast enough to run the DQ protocol.  Chip speeds have come a long way since then, and so, as a society, we no longer have a problem with compute power.  However, we do still have problems in shared connectivity.  These connectivity problems are not rooted in speed, even though bandwidth increases are the only "solutions" offered by an industry that would have us think that we still have a speed problem.  The fact is, all of the devices we own today have fast enough radios...we just don't have networks that can deliver this type of speed at societal scale, to a massive number of devices at the same exact time...like a TV station.  This is a problem in packet efficiency resulting from a lackluster switch architecture...not slow bandwidth speed.  To be clear, NO AMOUNT OF PHYSICAL SPEED IMPROVEMENT CAN SOLVE A PROBLEM IN SWITCH ARCHITECTURE, and that is why M2M Bell's solution fixes the IoT and broadband connectivity with near ~100% packet efficiency, shifting the telecommunications business model from scarcity to abundance.

Our technology was invented for cable TV at Illinois Institute of Technology, from where we licensed four patents surrounding the fundamental research.  We then wrote the first fully drawn protocol specification based upon the applied wireless research, and with help from our academic partners in Barcelona, the fully drawn DQ protocol specification became the subject of the first applied research patent.  GM engineers liked the security benefits so much, that we were published in the SAE Journal after filing the 5th patent, awarded in 2015.

The IEEE Award was for LPDQ (Tuset) which was a Zigbee radio demo.  This was followed up by Bucknell researchers who implemented the DQ protocol on the LoRa radio which covered 95% of downtown Philadelphia from a single antenna.  The main benefit shown was the increase in the number of competing devices from 1500 to 5700, with a secondary conclusion that if each municipality in the State of Pennsylvania mounted an $85 antenna, they'd have an IoT mesh covering 99% of the State's population.

Beginning 2019, M2M Bell engineers at USC have validated the demonstrations, and we are focused upon the commercial migration path...a "dual MAC" implementation that would allow legacy devices to see the network without an upgrade.  We are also excited that two independent research teams were published in 2019 with regard to their 5G LTE simulations, applying DQ switching to the 5G access channel.