Is Bonded Broadband Right for my Business?
Change is a business norm, in fact, the best companies make a point of embracing and managing change.
Change means vitality, to grow you need to learn as a team, share best practise and keep moving forward.
However, when it comes to IT – and specifically to your communications strategy – you need to be sure you meet your overriding objective, namely communications you can rely on.
The market for connectivity solutions is going through a period of almost unprecedented change at the moment. Broadband is a maturing and evolving technology.
Whilst only a matter of a couple of years ago, businesses would have been crazy to entrust their internet connectivity to a broadband link, now it’s possible that an ADSL MAX link would be suitable – subject to a couple of factors.
If you are located close to your local exchange, there is a chance that you will be fortunate enough to get a good rate of download. If the attenuation rate on the line is good then you may have low packet loss, if your exchange is not over subscribed you may have low contention rates.
However, even with the latest broadband technology, many businesses still take the “safe” option of leased connectivity, either leased lines to the internet or from site to site.
Why is this, why commit to more money for a 2mbps internet link in favour of a far cheaper option that could give you 20mbps or more?
The answer is reliability. Businesses need to ensure that they can continue to trade, and today access to email and the internet is crucial to this.
Often, the premium paid for leased line connectivity is offset against the risk of a cheaper connection failing and the resultant downtime.
There is an alternative, bonded broadband is a fast maturing technology that takes the cost benefits of broadband and marries them to the technological benefits of leased connectivity.
By taking a multiple number of links, bonded broadband solutions are able to aggregate content across multiple links through establishing multiple sessions. This means that the business user sees a number of key benefits.
Firstly, true bonding in this way increases the throughput of the connection as a whole, you are not limited to the up/download capacity of a single line, but get the benefit of massively increased throughput.
Secondly, the multiple links deliver an inbuilt failover capacity. This mitigates the risk of a single link failing, as the other links in the bonded solution will seamlessly pick up the slack.
Also, due to the nature of bonded broadband solutions, the connections will actually perform better in business class multi user environments. The more strain the links are put under, the more sessions are established, the better the performance of the link will be.
Bonded broadband connectivity, delivered in this way has been pioneered by the experts at Evolving Networks. Multiple links that act as one, solutions that actually deliver more in a tough multi user environment, with redundancy built in at every level.
To find out more about bonded broadband from Evolving Networks, or call now on 0845 652 2212 and talk to one of our bonded broadband specialists.