Benefits of using a Link Balancer

Link Balancers offer significant benefits to any organization which is dependant in Internet or telecom to conduct normal operations. Key benefits include:

• Business continuity: the use of multiple ISP links enables maximum uptime for connectivity, therefore ensuring the organization is able to conduct online activities normally even if one or more ISPs are not available, as long as one remains. Key services such as web surfing, VPN access and voice traffic will remain available and ensure normal operations.
• Productivity improvement: aggregating multiple links onto the same Link Balancer gives the organization the benefit of increased throughput for both upload and download activities.
• Cost reduction: by preventing downtime, productivity is maintained and employees operate normally even during link failures. The same can be said of servers and services, ensuring all transactions are able to be completed.
• Lower helpdesk calls: when Internet access is functioning normally, even when one or more ISPs are not available, users will not contact the helpdesk for assistance and will most likely not try to troubleshoot their equipment themselves
• Sales and opportunity enablement: an optimal access to customer resources for external visitors will always be guaranteed a better shopping experience. Internet visitors have low a tolerance for unavailable or disrupted connections, moving to a competitor’s resource or web site.