Goodmill to Enable 'Faster Than Light' Communications

Goodmill Systems, a leading manufacturer of multichannel routers for critical connectivity use cases in public emergency and safety, as well as with unmanned systems, sees a high demand for optimizing bandwidth and latency. Even with dedicated private networks or network slicing, the most demanding customer requirements exceed what 5G SA technology can provide.

Goodmill has created a concept that allows the use of multiple network slices at the same time by utilizing the multichannel paradigm.

We can now examine the average arrival time of packets over a clearly defined testing and measurement period, thanks to the new latency calculation rules defined by the 4GDP standards body. We can achieve performance where a specific IP packet arrives significantly earlier than with the FIFO model by sending multiple data streams to dedicated network slices instead of the normal FIFO procedure on a single network. The difference in one specific test with our major customer was of the order of several seconds. Given that the latency distribution of all network slices over the same measurement period was upper bound to 100 milliseconds, the effective speed of the aforementioned IP packet was less than minus 2000 milliseconds, arriving faster than light (FTL).

The use of a post-quantum cryptography algorithm was not included in the test run, but theoretical calculations show that it has no, or has an exponentially marginal impact on performance and results in relation to the number of slices. The data sent contained no information (it was a cat picture), preserving the general theory of relativity.