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Is a 99.999 percent SLA not enough?

Stability of Wide Area Network (WAN) infrastructures is an ongoing concern for IT managers as WAN/Internet connectivity is vital for many companies as a tool to run critical business applications. Although ISPs offer SLAs up to 99.999% reliability, based on their network topology, this is not enough because it does not protect the company if the outage happens in the last mile of connectivity. Any downtime results in immediate losses and is unacceptable to most network managers.

IT trends, including the growing popularity of Service Centralization, Data Center Consolidation, VoIP, Supply Chain Management, and CRM tools, are forcing the need for 100% WAN uptime. As an example, today’s data centers host much more than spreadsheets and emails. Now they store email, VoIP phone calls, electronic faxes, and instant messages in addition to traditional data. Supply chain management is also more than the supporting tools that helped facilitate the faxing in of orders. Today’s modern supply chain management is dynamic and requires constant WAN uptime to keep production and productivity high. In addition, the world of customer service is changing. With all of the remote based CRM tools, the new CRM associate is either a telecommuter or at a branch office and are the backbone of many organizations.

Having only one WAN/Internet connection leaves your company at risk for significant downtime, lost productivity, and profit. IT managers have to ask the hard questions: Is it worth the risk to have all WAN connectivity in one basket? Can we afford lost connectivity for one hour, a half a day, a full day, or a week? If you answered no to either of these questions, you need redundancy for your WAN.

The best way to ensure that your company has reliable WAN connectivity is to aggregate connections from dissimilar providers or the same provider connecting from different POPs from opposite building entry points. Utilizing technology like FatPipe Networks’ router clustering devices, any IT manager can easily aggregate similar and dissimilar connections from the same or different providers without the need for the provider’s support to achieve the fault tolerance they need. FatPipe products provide the 99.999988% WAN reliability your company needs. Case in point: While Salt Lake City was preparing for the Winter Olympics, several streets were repaved. During this process a backhoe accidentally dug up fiber connections from two providers outside of a local business. Since that business had a FatPipe WAN Redundancy product installed and a connection coming in from the other side of the building per FatPipe’s recommendations, their employees did not know that an outage had occurred other than slightly slower speeds at peak hours of usage due to limited bandwidth.

Installation and maintenance are also easy with the use of FatPipe’s Graphical User Interface or GUI. FatPipe also includes remote monitoring and notification tools that allow IT managers to easily monitor FatPipe devices across a company’s network from one central location.

No matter what you implement or how you implement it, in business today 100% uptime is not a wish. It’s a requirement!

For a free network risk assessment, live demo and more information on FatPipe redundancy products call 412-894-8268 to speak with our Data Minds representative today.

Data Minds and FatPipe Networks: Network Reliability Made Affordable

Reliability:

Data Minds specializes in providing reliability for all types of wide area networks. Using FatPipe router-clustering products provide intelligent and dynamic redundancy and high-availability for data transmission over private and/or public networks.

It dynamically balances load over two or more connections, and will redirect traffic to available lines should one fail due to a hardware or service component failure.

Data Minds also offers dual and hot-swappable power supplies; and unit failover and remote failover options are available for additional reliability and continuity. Our clients may choose a unit failover and/or a remote location failover scenario. Unit failover allows the end user to setup the primary unit to failover to a secondary unit, where they are both located at the customer premises. The Remote Failover option, called Site Failover, is implemented by companies to support or enhancing their contingency/disaster recovery planning.

Security Enhancement:

Data Minds offers a suite of FatPipe products and add-on features to help secure data transmission over WANs including an IPSec VPN add-on utility, a firewall add-on, FatPipe SpamPolice, an anti-spam and anti-virus device; and FatPipe MultiPath Security (MPSec), available as a feature on all MPVPN and IPVPN units.

Using the IPSec add-on feature, FatPipe provides security using 3DES and AES to encrypt your data transmission. All FatPipe products are also compatible with other encryption devices.

FatPipe’s MPSec, a patented security feature, transmits data in several permutations and combinations between offices utilizing multiple lines in a network, which makes it harder to sequentially trap data flow and decrypt the info in the correct order. The result is increased security of data transmission of sensitive information.

Router Clustering:

Data Minds supports FatPipe's multi-patented router-clustering technology designed for Wide Area Network (WAN) infrastructures by providing the highest levels of redundancy, reliability, speed, dynamic load balancing and additional security of IP traffic over any type of WAN.

FatPipe router-clustering devices bond any combination of DS3, T1, E3, E1, DSL, OCN, ISDN, wireless, and/or cable lines. FatPipe offers four different load balancing algorithms for customers to choose from to get the maximum benefit and utilization of all the lines. Customers have the flexibility to work with any type of WAN, creating a system that load balances among multiple managed or CPE VPNs, while still being compatible with Internet based VPNs. Companies can support their private and public wide area networks, even bonding multiple private and public networks together without BGP or any equipment at the provider end.

Customers can even combine private and public lines, providing FatPipe gives customers the confidence and peace of mind that data lines will remain up at all times regardless of router, ISP, line, or backbone failures.

Bandwidth Optimization:

FatPipe Networks can further enhance your Wide Area Network with its optimization products, FatPipe Quality of Service (QoS) and FatPipe Kompressor. Each are sold separately as networking devices or can be enabled from FatPipe router-clustering products that support one or both products.

FatPipe QoS optimizes the efficiency of networks by providing tools that control congestion and prioritize data flow up to ten levels. FatPipe QoS provides granular control over how IP traffic transmits across your network, helping to control WAN costs. One can reduce bandwidth requirements and bottlenecking issues by allocating bandwidth to specific business applications and control recreational traffic via FatPipe QoS.

FatPipe Kompressor increases network capacity up to three times by compressing packet payload and eliminating redundant data traffic over a WAN. (A full T1/1.5 mbps = 4.5 mbps or more with Kompressor). Kompressor significantly increases a network’s throughput without having to upgrade data line connections (e.g.: from DSL to a T1), bringing significant cost savings to the customer immediately.

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FatPipe Products

IPVPN - FatPipe® IPVPN is the only product of its kind that works with multiple managed VPN services from multiple providers, Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) based VPNs and private lines to achieve the highest level of reliability, redundancy, speed, and security for interoffice data transmissions.

MPVPN - MPVPN® takes any VPN and makes it up to 300% more reliable and redundant, 300% faster and provides up to 900% more security for WAN data transmissions. MPVPN dynamically balances load over multiple lines and ISPs without the need for BGP programming. MPVPN can take WANs with an uptime of 99.5% or less and make them 99.999988% or higher, providing a virtually infallible WAN.

WARP - FatPipe® WARP aggregates up to three T3s (higher speeds available) over multiple ISPs and backbones or the same ISP with different POPs for the highest level of redundancy, reliability and speed of inbound and outbound Internet traffic over a Wide Area Network. WARP is perfect for mid-size ASPs, ISPs, and corporations that want redundant access to internal servers.

XTREME - FatPipe® XTREME is perfect for companies that require redundancy and dynamic load balancing for outbound Internet traffic. FatPipe XTREME aggregates multiple lines over multiple ISPs and backbones without requiring any BGP programming.

SUPERSTREAM - FatPipe® SUPERSTREAM aggregate multiple routers for highly reliable and redundant Internet access. SUPERSTREAM is well suited for applications that require high bandwidth, and a high degree of reliability and redundancy such as VPNs, Thin Clients, Intranets and e-commerce for branch offices of large corporations and small to medium size companies.

KOMPRESSOR - FatPipe® KOMPRESSOR is a networking device that increases network capacity up to three times by compressing data packets between two locations. KOMPRESSOR significantly increases your network's throughput without having to upgrade your line connections
(e.g. from DSL to a T1 or a T1 to a T3 ), bringing significant cost savings to you immediately.

SPAM POLICE - FatPipe® SPAM POLICE is a network appliance that eliminates junk email and protects your network from harmful viruses. Regardless of which of the FatPipe Spam Police solutions you choose, Spam Police will help you increase productivity and decrease costs associated with abusive spamming. FatPipe Spam Police is a separate network appliance, and screens out spam before it reaches your internal email server. Filtering out unwanted email before reaching employees increases corporate productivity and pro tects employees from potentially offensive and corrupting emails.

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