Elfiq Link Balancers : Reliability and uptime for hosting providers

Hosting providers are under constant pressure to provide uninterrupted Internet-based services and must satisfy their service level agreements (SLAs). Under these conditions, link failures are unacceptable, will cause a loss of revenue and may damage an organization’s reputation.

Elfiq Link Balancers give these organizations the ability to bring their infrastructure uptime to as close to 99.999% as possible by managing Internet and private WAN links. By adding multiple connections and diversifying the technologies used to transport data (DSL, satellite, microwave, etc.), hosting providers can satisfy and exceed their SLAs. Another benefit is customer satisfaction, where no problems mean uptime, and uptime means visits and transactions.

Elfiq’s Geolink technology enables alternative sites to be used to distribute traffic in the event of link saturation or site unavailability.

Feature

Benefit

• Use multiple Internet links from any provider (DSL, T1, cable modem, wireless, etc.)

• Increase redundancy and performance to the hosting infrastructure, with up to 320 links

• Manage multiple links implemented on Layer-2 of the OSI model

• Seamlessly integrate with any router, firewall or device

• Ease of use and configuration

• Add links and manage the unit effortlessly to meet demand or new projects

• iDNS Module

• Ensures domain name resolution when a link fails so servers will remain accessible
• Enables the hosting of up to 65,536 distinct domains on a single implementation

• Intelligent Service Verificator

• Verifies if a server is available or not before passing traffic

• Geolink Geographic Balancing

• Enables incoming and/or outgoing geographic traffic management based on customer-defined rules and link availability