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BROADBAND BONDING SERVICE
Broadband Bonding as a Managed Service
Mushroom Networks customer premises equipment (CPE) devices like Truffle and Portabella can bond HTTPS downlink traffic without requiring a peering device or service. The optional Broadband Bonding Service (BBS) provides application-centric overlay tunnels that peer the CPE to Mushroom Relay Servers in the cloud. This enables packet-level bonding tunnels for any protocol or application, including video, VoIP, uploads, chatty applications, and more. With BBS, even single internet sessions can be striped across available links, unlocking the aggregate bandwidth.
Self-Hosted Broadband Bonding (Virtual Leased Line)
BENEFITS OF BROADBAND BONDING SOLUTIONS
Downlink and Uplink Bonding
When used with the Broadband Bonding Service (BBS) or peered to another Truffle/Portabella device, these load-balancing routers can bond internet access lines for all types of traffic, including encrypted VPN traffic, providing aggregated downlink and uplink speed and capacity.
Application Armor with Session Keep Alive
Mushroom Networks devices continuously monitor network conditions and intelligently react in real-time to mitigate performance degradation caused by WAN issues. Managed parameters include packet loss, latency, jitter, cross-traffic, buffer bloat, MTU problems, black holes, and more. If any WAN link at a branch office experiences issues like packet loss or latency spikes, the bonding tunnel maintains ongoing IP sessions without performance loss by shielding the negative effects and re-routing traffic.
Networks on Autopilot for High Reliability
In case of internet access line issues, Truffle/Portabella can keep active sessions alive by making real-time per-packet routing decisions, even for in-progress sessions. Automatic failover also protects against one or more WAN link failures.
Advanced QoS for Application Optimization
The application-centric bonding tunnels can optimize traffic flows for various applications. For example, they can route VoIP/SIP call packets around network issues to maintain optimal call quality (MOS score).
Elastic Static IP
HOW MUSHROOM NETWORKS BONDING SOLUTIONS WORK
Peering
Truffle and Portabella devices can peer with a Mushroom Relay device through the Broadband Bonding Service (BBS) or another physical/virtual Truffle appliance hosted in the data center. Between the two endpoints, a VPN-like overlay tunnel is created to orchestrate the multi-WAN paths. For connectivity between multiple offices, star or mesh topologies are supported.
Application-Optimized Algorithms
The bonding tunnels between Mushroom endpoints implement advanced networking algorithms to optimize traffic flows. Various application-centric overlay tunnels are optimized for VoIP, video, unified communications, chatty applications, cloud services, file transfers, and other application types.
Real-Time Measurements
The algorithms powering the Virtual Leased Line (VLL) tunnels rely on the system’s ability to measure real-time parameters like packet loss, latency, jitter, and recent network history metrics using in-band and out-of-band techniques.
Third-Party Monitoring Support
Third-party monitoring solutions are supported via SNMP, Syslog, Netflow, and other standard APIs.
Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Architecture
Mushroom Networks solutions are built on an award-winning, industry-leading SD-WAN architecture. The software-defined approach enables easy development, deployment, and management of bonding tunnels and customer premises equipment (CPE) devices. A single-pane-of-glass dashboard provides visibility and remote access to CPEs from a cloud-based portal, supporting zero-touch preconfiguration and rapid deployment.
Implementation Options
The relay side of the peering tunnel can be implemented using a Truffle physical appliance, a virtual Truffle V running on VMware/Xen hypervisors, or the Mushroom Networks-hosted BBS service in Mushroom data centers or on AWS EC2.
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Analysts Say
Quadrant Research Knowledge Brief:
“Mushroom Networks, with its unique and innovative SD-WAN solution and Broadband Bonding technology, is well positioned to continue to help enterprises in improving WAN performance”.
“Driven by strong overall performance in terms of sophistication, depth and maturity of the technology, visionary innovation, and industry impact, Mushroom Networks is recognized as the Company of the Year in the global SD-WAN market”.
“The company, with its unique technology platform is emerging to become the key vendor in the SD-WAN market”.
Roopa Honnachari, Director of Business Communication Services & Cloud Computing Services at Frost & Sullivan:
“…Mushroom Networks has gone farther in this direction, the VNF Design Studio is truly unique, because it has a user interface for service providers to design and deploy these solutions.”
“These guys have done a lot more work. It’s a solution that lets a service provider deploy in their network to offer business solutions or residential solutions depending on different SLAs.”
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Truffle Models
Truffle V
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http bonding
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Truffle V
Truffle V, is a WAN Orchestration software that runs on a virtual machine installed on standard hardware in a data-center to function as a Truffle Master unit. Truffle V is peered with other Truffle appliances in the branch offices to create an overlay bonded IP tunnel between the end-points, VLL (Virtual Leased Line).
Truffle V – brochure
Truffle Models
Truffle V
Truffle Models
Truffle V
Truffle V, is a WAN Orchestration software that runs on a virtual machine installed on standard hardware in a data-center to function as a Truffle Master unit. Truffle V is peered with other Truffle appliances in the branch offices to create an overlay bonded IP tunnel between the end-points, VLL (Virtual Leased Line).
Truffle V – brochure
TESTIMONIALS & AWARDS
“Just drop the Truffle into your network and experience what it is like to have a large bandwidth pipe at a fraction of the cost. The Truffle is highly reliable, scalable and easy to use.”
KARL VAN GILLS
Vice President of IT
Pacific Capital Group
“This is hands down the best hardware investment I have made. The Truffle has been a real life saver.”
Michael Durdin
Technology Coordinator
East Wake Academy
“I have to say, these devices [Broadband Bonding devices] are pretty incredible. These things really are as easy to understand and configure as you described. I’m very impressed.”
Dorian DeLuca
IT Manager
Michael Brady
Clients include:
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS aBOUT BROADBAND BONDING SERVICE
Mushroom Networks devices have two modes – standalone mode bonds only HTTP downlink traffic while load balancing other traffic types. For packet-level bonding across all traffic types, including live video streaming, a peering node (our Cloud Relay Service or your own Relay Server) is needed to stitch packets back together.
Depending on your traffic type, various tunnels are available:
- Video Armor tunnel for live video streaming applications
- VoIP Armor tunnel for real-time applications
- App Armor tunnels for generic internet applications
These tunnels work alongside the flagship broadband bonding tunnel and are compatible across Mushroom Networks devices.
No, there are no fees based on data usage amount.
Absolutely. You can schedule a live demo of the broadband bonding technology by contacting us via the “Contact Sales” button below.
Yes, you can find our customer case-studies here.
Yes, you can combine different types of internet access lines from any ISP using the Broadband Bonding Service.
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