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Hosting Providers Link BalancersHosting 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 Description Benefits
Core Technologies Enable the use of multiple ISP links
  • Provides a redundant telecom infrastructure
  • More ISP links add more performance for WAN-based Microsoft products
  • Enables bandwidth provider diversification to prevent downtime
VFI
Elfiq VFI
 Balancer virtualization
  • Multiple logical balancers can be used concurrently in the same appliance to separate customer traffic and corporate traffic
  • Enables cost-savings opportunities by reducing the amount of equipment and electricity required
iDNS
Elfiq		 Balance inbound traffic
  • Proactively distributes traffic for remote users and applications
  • Provides failover capacity for remote users and visitors to access data if an ISP should be unavailable

Intelligent Service Verificator
Elfiq ISV

 Proactively distribute traffic to best available servers
  • Ensures data requests are sent to servers operating normally
  • Prevents requests to be sent to slow or inactive servers
Intelligent Condition verificator
Elfiq		 Enables complex confition-based configuration
  • Existing configurations can be dynamically adjusted based on selected criteria
  • Common usage inclues usage of links based on cost, altering priorities based on link comditions or failure and statistics reset
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
Global and Inbound Geolink
Elfiq geolink		 Geographical redundancy between sites
  • Enables geographic balancing and redundancy of traffic for environments requiring multiple sites
  • Ensures traffic goes to available sites when links or servers are unavailable
  • Manages WAN traffic saturation for optimal operations