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Education SolutionThe academic world has always been one of the first to embrace new technologies and new methods of delivering content to their audiences.  With online courses, recorded video and audio, Web-based student and grade management systems, document sharing and more bandwidth has become a critical aspect of a facility’s ability to fulfill its mission.

Another aspect to take into consideration is the amount of student-generated traffic from Web browsing for peer to peer sharing of files. Students are notorious to consuming significant amounts of bandwidth and managing current ISPs becomes a priority.


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With Elfiq’s Link Balancer products, schools, school districts, campuses, colleges, universities and many more customers can take back control of bandwidth and proactively add more ISP links to meet demand.

Elfiq’s Link Balancers also provide a cost reduction opportunity by utilizing low-cost ISP links such as DSL and cable to replace and complement existing more expensive links such as DS3s, T1s, fiber and more. Many academic organizations are employing this approach, combining two or three cable modems with a 10Mbps fiber connection are saving thousands every month.

Feature Description Benefits
Core Technologies Enable use of multiple ISP links
  • Provides a redundant telecom infrastructure
  • More ISP links add more performance for WAN-based products
  • Enables bandwidth provider diversification to prevent downtime
  • Enables the use of low-cost links such as DSL and cable modems

iDNS
Elfiq

 Balance inbound traffic
  • Proactively distributes traffic for remote users and applications
  • Provide failover capacity for remote users

Intelligent Service Verificator
Elfiq ISV

 Proactively distribute traffic to the best available servers
  • Ensures data requests are sent to servers operating normally
  • Prevents requests from being sent to slow or inactive servers
Intelligent Condition verificator
Elfiq		 Enables complex condition-based configurations
  • Existing configurations can be dynamically adjusted based on selected criteria
  • Common usage includes usage of links based on cost, altering priorities based on link conditions or failure and statistics reset
Time of Day
Elfiq time of day		 Configuration alterations based on time-met conditions
  • Promotes maximization of available bandwidth through time-based priorities
  • Enables cost reduction through smarter allocation of ressources
LAN Failsafe
elfiq lan failsafe		 Continues operations with 1 ISP if the unit loses power
  • Even if the Elfiq unit is physically powered off, users and servers will continue operating through the primary link
High Availability
Elfiq HA		 Redundant unit management
  • Enables maximum uptime for bandwidth availability
QoS and Traffic Segmentation
Elfiq QOS		 Bandwidth allocation management
  • Ensures that each server or service has the required bandwidth to deliver its value to users
  • Prevents low-priority traffic from using key bandwidth resources
SitePathMTPX
Sitepath Elfiq		 Point to point resilience and performance
  • Increases performance of site to site VPNs or VoIP tunnels
  • Fault-tolerance for VPN or VoIP deployments.  Should one ISP fail others will keep the VPN or VoIP tunnels functioning normally