With the potential to be less expensive, much more flexible, and often more reliable than a traditional MPLS network, a move to SD-WAN can be a savvy decision, even for smaller organizations.
Creating a Peplink SD-WAN requires relatively little hardware and can use the connections available locally. Using the broadband options at any location, Peplink’s software creates a WAN network that acts like a single pipe connecting all of the assets. Even locations with limited or no wired broadband choices can take advantage of SD-WAN. Peplink’s SpeedFusion technology binds several connection methods into what your hardware sees as a single, clear pathway.
When deciding if Peplink SD-WAN is right for your connectivity, ask these six questions.
1. Do you need increased security?
Peplink’s SpeedFusion divides your transmissions into smaller pieces, so no single piece contains enough information to be useful. It then codes each of those pieces with military-grade 256-bit encryption. The transmission that leaves your location is made up entirely of those secure, encrypted pieces.
The only device capable of decoding and reassembling those pieces is your Peplink device at the other end of that transmission. Whether it travels across town or to another country, only your Peplink devices will ever be able to read it.
2. Do you need more reliable connections?
Peplink’s SD-WAN technology uses two or more connections through cable, DSL, fiber, Cellular, satellite—even MPLS—and transmits the encoded packets simultaneously through all available channels. This process is constantly monitored by all of the involved Peplink devices. If at any point SpeedFusion detects a slowdown on any channel, traffic is rerouted instantaneously to another, healthier network. From the perspective of a user on the network, the connection never slows down, and never goes down.
3. Do you need to prioritize bandwidth and traffic?
With multiple users on your network, it is unlikely that their different tasks and roles have the same level of urgency and importance. Peplink and SpeedFusion employ eight different load balancing algorithms to assure that the most essential traffic is allocated the most bandwidth. By balancing the traffic, Peplink keeps everything moving at the speeds required by the application. Peplink can keep casual-use traffic moving while assuring that the most critical applications always get through first.
4. Do you use Internet (VoIP) telephones?
For VoIP telephones to deliver full, copper-wired quality, they need more than just a “good enough” connection. Because human ears are so sensitive to even microsecond delays or losses in voice sound, VoIP requires the smoothest throughput possible.
If your VoIP calls aren’t clear, you don’t need a different telephone—you need a better connection. Peplink uses special VoIP Quality of Service protocols and, more importantly, SpeedFusion can detect and instantly prioritize VoIP traffic for the clearest possible calls. Even using the same cable or networks you have always used, managing your connection with Peplink will make your calls clearer.
5. Is your business growing?
Peplink allows you to add additional bandwidth from any source at any time. If your SD-WAN is built on a primary cable connection with cellular for failover, Peplink can seamlessly add an additional cable, DSL or other connection for a fatter pipe without any protocol change. The only thing users will notice is improved transmission speed.
6. Do you have vastly different connection options at various locations?
The Peplink network doesn’t require any specific type of connection. It can integrate various providers and protocols in various locations without any loss in quality.
For example, a Chicago office may have a local fiber connection with a secondary connection to cable from Xfinity. Another office may have only ATT DSL available with a secondary connection to cellular. One of the company’s ships in the North Atlantic might use whatever Wi-Fi connection is available along with cellular in port, then switch to satellite on the open sea. Peplink and SpeedFusion will create a unified WAN network from these so that every employee in every location has an identical on-line experience.
You don’t need to answer “Yes!” to more than one of these questions to seriously consider a Peplink SD-WAN, but if you have more than three “yes” responses, you should contact Frontier today. There are Peplink solutions for enterprises of any size, using any connection protocol. Even if you’ve moved your IT to the cloud, Peplink can give you the speed, reliability, and security of your own SD-WAN.
As the largest distributor of Peplink SD-WAN products, FrontierUS can connect you with the ideal solutions provider for your application.
