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Elfiq Link Balancers : Enabling telecommunications opportunities

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In today’s telecommunications marketplace, growing needs for bandwidth and new technologies are providing new business opportunities for both carriers and integrators, but capitalizing on new offering ideas may prove challenging or expensive for telecommunications link providers.

The Elfiq Link Balancer product line gives organizations that provide any type of IP link services the ability to manage multiple connections. This leading-edge technology means installing an Elfiq unit in a customer’s telecommunications infrastructure is easy and painless, making multiple link additions a seamless activity.

Elfiq products let telecommunications specialists add extra value to projects such as:

  • Bandwidth aggregation: combining multiple low-cost links to replace expensive links, such as DSL to replace T1’s
  • Redundancy: providing different technologies on different media to prevent downtime due to link failure
  • Geographic support: Elfiq enterprise products support incoming and outgoing traffic based on multiple geographic sites to prevent downtime and increase availability
  • MPLS implementations: add redundancy and grow performance at each endpoint without a network redesign
  • Alternative technologies: enable the use of 3G mobile networks, “line of sight” microwave transmission, low-cost fiber links, satellite uplinks and more. In fact, any IP-based link can be used.
  • VPN: enable site-to-site virtual private network (IPSec) resilience by combining multiple ISP links, providing increased performance and should one link fail others are available to prevent downtime. This technology is excellent for managed VPN services.
  • Account penetration: without removing existing competition in targeted accounts, telecommunications firms can complement their customers’ infrastructure by offering their technologies with a much faster rate of sales cycle management
    

     

Elfiq customer: Thayer Lodging Group

"Located in the vibrant heart of downtown Bethesda, Maryland, the Doubletree Hotel Bethesda contains 269 newly-renovated guest rooms and suites, and over 15,000 square feet of meeting space. The Hotel was in need of a vast amount of bandwidth at a relatively low cost, in order to be the premier hotel in the Washington/DC market. To overcome that challenge, we implemented the Elfiq link balancer to bring together a DS-3, plus two 7.1Mb DSL circuits, giving the hotel a combined amount of downstream bandwidth of almost 60Mb/s. The Elfiq box is able to regulate our priority VPN and email traffic through the dedicated DS-3 and be able to send non-priority traffic over the DSL circuits. By doing so, we can have a level of guarantee for all important and essential levels of traffic. In all, the Elfiq technology has done everything we needed it to do."

Mike Dickersbach, VP Information Technology, CHTP,
MCP Thayer Lodging Group, Maryland, USA