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Robot Connectivity · Link-Bonding

Keep control alive when a link drops.

Robot fleets ride Wi-Fi, LTE, and 5G that drift under load. Benison adapts its own link-bonding IP — field-proven in thousands of constrained edge devices — to robot edge connectivity, scoring every path in real time and steering each traffic class to the link that fits. Proven IP, adapted to robotics — not built from scratch.

The Evidence

Proven IP, adapted — not invented.

1000sconstrained edge devices already running Benison link-bonding IP in production.
Multi-pathEthernet, Wi-Fi, LTE, VPN, and more — scored and bonded across links.
6 classesrobot flows prioritized — safety, teleop, telemetry, OTA, logs, and video.
ARM-classruns within a 256 MB–1 GB RAM edge footprint, not a server.

Our Customers

15+ Years of Engineering Solutions for Fortune 1000 Enterprises

GoogleIntelCiscoMcAfeeJuniper

Traffic Classes

Not all robot traffic is equal.

Bonding starts by classifying flows. Safety can't wait and can't drop; bulk can. Each class gets the path — or paths — that fit.

C0 · Safety

Safety & Control

Stop, e-stop, and motion commands. Lowest latency, and duplicated across paths so a single link loss never drops control.

  • Duplicated across the two best links.
  • Pre-empts every lower class.
C1 · Teleop

Teleop & Intervention

Human-in-the-loop control and operator video. Latency- and jitter-sensitive.

  • Steered to the lowest-jitter path.
  • Fast failover on degradation.
C2 · Telemetry

Telemetry & Status

Pose, health, battery, and task state. Steady and loss-tolerant.

  • Steered to the most available path.
  • Backpressure-aware.
C3 · Bulk

OTA, Logs & Video

Updates, log sync, and recorded video. Lowest priority and cost-aware.

  • Uses spare capacity only.
  • Pauses under contention.

Link scoring — the inputs behind every decision

Each path is scored continuously on latency, jitter, loss, availability, cost, and failover state — and every class is re-steered as conditions change.

Our Approach

Benison's Bonding Method

We adapt a proven algorithm to your robot's flows and links, then prove failover before it ships.

Map each robot flow to a class with its own priority and path policy.

  • Safety, teleop, telemetry, OTA, logs, and video.
  • Per-class latency, loss, and duplication rules.

Continuously score each transport on the signals that predict failure.

  • Latency, jitter, loss, availability, cost, failover state.
  • Scoring runs at the edge, within ARM-class budgets.

Route each class to the link that fits — and duplicate what can't drop.

  • Safety duplicated across the two best paths.
  • Bulk uses spare capacity only.

When a path degrades, traffic re-steers before control is affected.

  • No dropped commands on a single link loss.
  • Failover timing measured on your link-loss scenarios.
ROBOT EDGE ETHERNET WI-FI LTE VPN BONDED SITE / CLOUD

Where The Work Sits

Bonding lives below the application.

The robot application never changes. Bonding is a transport- and dataplane-level concern, implemented where the packets actually are.

Line-rate, low-overhead. Classification and enforcement run in the kernel dataplane with tc/XDP, so steering doesn’t tax the edge CPU.
Layer 4ROS 2 Application
per-topic QoStraffic taggingapplication unchanged
Layer 3Transport / DDS
RTPS over bonded linkflow classificationDSCP marking
Layer 2Bonding Agent
link scoringsteeringduplicationfailover
Layer 1Physical Links
Ethernet · Wi-Fi · LTE/5G · VPNtc / XDP classificationline-rate enforcement

What You Own

A tuned agent, not a slide.

Every link-bonding engagement leaves your team owning the policy, the package, and the evidence.

Traffic-Class Map

Every robot flow mapped to a class, priority, and path policy for your fleet.

Link-Scoring Policy

The scoring weights and thresholds, tuned to your transports and environment.

Edge Agent Package

The packaged bonding agent for your ARM/edge runtime, with a validation harness.

Failover Evidence

Link-loss scenarios, failover timing, per-class route decisions, and degradation behavior.

Common Questions

The things engineering leaders actually ask.

Straight answers to the questions that decide whether we get a technical call.

Is the bonding algorithm real IP, or a robotics experiment?

Real IP. It already runs in thousands of constrained networking devices. The robotics work is adapting it to robot traffic classes and edge conditions — not inventing bonding from scratch.

Will it run on our edge compute?

Yes. The IP is built for ARM CPE-class hardware, 256 MB–1 GB RAM. Classification and enforcement run in the kernel dataplane (tc/XDP), so steering stays low-overhead.

Does it touch the robot application?

No. Bonding is a transport- and dataplane-level concern. The ROS 2 application is unchanged; we work below it.

Can we own it, or is it lock-in?

You own the agent, configs, scoring policy, and validation harness. It’s delivered for your runtime and your fleet.

Get Started

Find out where your links fail.

Tell us how your robots connect, and we’ll scope a bonding engagement with failover evidence you own.

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