The Braid

About this piece

The Braid: an animated explainer. Three lanes (fibre, 4G, 5G) carry coloured dots for three people's traffic. With most routers each app stays on one line and breaks when the fibre is cut; with connection bonding every app is braided across all three lines and carries on. Made by Munir Kotadia. Full description, screenshots and options: All the work, described.

Most routers

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Connection bonding

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Most routers give each connection one line. Bonding spreads every connection across all of them.

See the same cut, second by second →Schematic: timings are compressed and counts are illustrative.

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