Affordable enterprise-class bandwidth management

Elfiq LB-2500E

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Unit Price is $5495 until April 30th, 2010
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ElfiqThe Elfiq LB-2500E Link Balancer is designed to meet and exceed the needs for proactive and affordable bandwidth management of organizations which need maximum uptime and performance while proposing a financially-sensible solution. With Elfiq’s exclusive Layer-2 design for inline transparent installation and utilization, organizations can manage and load balance sixty four ISP or private links with a total throughput of 980Mbps to ensure maximum uptime and added the performance of many ISP links without redesigning their network and by utilizing Elfiq’s unique virtualization technology for next-level bandwidth aggregation.

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The 3 major benefits

  • 2 virtual balancers in one unit
  • Cloud balancing ready
  • Gigabit ports

Starting from:US$ 6995.00*

(MSRP)

How to buy
  • Overview

  • Features

  • Tech Specs

  • Case study

The LB-2500E enables the use of any ISP link including low-cost links, Quality of Service (QoS), traffic segmentation, SIP awareness, inbound traffic management and advanced balancing algorithms are included in the LB-2500E Link Balancer to provide optimized bandwidth based on organizational requirements and policies. With its four gigabit ports, the LB-2500E can accommodate bandwidth-demanding projects.

The LB-2500E is designed to deliver maximum uptime for the organization with the use of Elfiq’s LAN Failsafe technology and the ability to use LB-2500E’s in high availability mode for demanding environments.

The LB-2500E enables the use of Elfiq’s bandwidth virtualization technology SitePathMTPX, which enables point to point application resilience with performance enhancement. This feature is ideal for site to site VPN tunnels and voice over IP (VoIP) deployments through bandwidth aggregation.

In datacenter environments, the LB-2500E can be used with the optional Global Geolink feature to enable inbound and outbound geographic link balancing to maximize business continuity across multiple physical sites and deliver disaster recovery in seconds.

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Testimonials

   

"Our day-to-day activities require that we have a reliable Internet connection for both our internal and remote users so we can conduct electronic exchanges with our clients and access legal databases."

"Having experienced service outages on our Internet connection in the past, we added a second line from another provider and using a different technology. The Elfiq Link LB has made our Internet connection extremely reliable so we can continue operations without fear of an interruption."

  

James Dever, IS Manager
Lapointe Rosenstein LLP. Attorneys, Canada

   

"We are an Internet Flower Auction that supplies North American Florists. We hold live auctions every Monday, Wednesday and Friday and have been in continuous operation since November 1997.  Due to the nature of our business we needed to have an option to provide 100% access to our servers with no disruption.
 
We have turned to Elfiq Load balancer products for their capabilities and value, and we have been very happy with it."

  

Mr. Victor Altamirano, IT Manager
Access Flower Trading / FlowerBuyer.com, Ontario, Canada

LB-2500E Technical Specifications

Performance and balancing  
Incoming and outgoing traffic balancing  Yes 
Maximum number of links  64
Maximum throughput Half Duplex
490 Mbps total
   
Maximum throughput Full Duplex* 980 Mbps 
Maximum number of sessions* 2 048 000 
 Maximum number of new sessions per second*  25 000 
Maximum number of Virtual Forwarder Interfaces 2
Maximum number of links per Virtual Forwarder Interface 32
Maximum number of network (subnets) per link 64
Protocol balancing through multiple algorithms  Yes 
Maximum number of IDNS records (Intelligent DNS)  65536
Symetric and asymetric links (ex. ADSL) support  Yes 
Persistent session management  Yes 
OSI model Layer 2 operation (inline unit)  Yes 
Real time balancing mode  NAT / TAG / PREF 
Traffic segmentation Yes
Quality of Service (QoS) for rate limiting and diffserv marking  Yes 
Internet Service Verificator Yes 
Uptime and high availability  
Watchdog timer  Yes 
LAN Failsafe support  Software programmable,
2 pairs/1 group (100 Mbps and 1 Gbps) 
High availability support  Yes
SitePathMTPX Resilience  
SitePathMTPXsupport  Yes 
SitePath AES128 encryption  Yes 
Maximum number of site paths  128
Maximum number of site path groups 32
Geolink Geographic balancing  
Real time dispersed geographic balancing (GeoLink)  Option 
Geographic mode  Global and Inbound Geolink 
Maximum number of remote geographic sites  4
Networking features  
DHCP support  Yes 
Dynamic MTU/MSS support  Yes 
802.1Q (vlan) support  Yes 
IP Filtering  Yes 
Real time filtering (shunning)  Yes 
Built-in probe  Yes 
Maximum number of ports in monitoring mode (tap)  1
NAT, Block NAT and PAT translation support  Yes 
Management  
Web-based management and reporting interface Yes 
Console command line interface (CLI) management  Yes 
Graphical user interface (GUI) management tool  Yes 
Alert support (syslog, SMTP)  Yes 
Secure inline access (CLI and GUI)  Yes 
XML based external API  Yes 
SSH, GUI, API through dedicated management port  Yes 
SNMP MIB II support  Read-only 
Physical specifications  
Speed of network interfaces (Mbps)  10 / 100 / 1000 
Total number of Ethernet interfaces  8
Number of Gigabit interfaces  4 Copper
Power requirements

100~240V @ 50~60Hz
150W

Format  Rackmount 1U 
Hardware warranty  12 months 
   
*: includes the total capacity of all Virtual Forwarding Interfaces (VFIs)

 

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Other Models

Medium business

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LB-1500E

  • Datacenter unit for SMB
  • Cloud balancing ready
  • High-Availability option

Starting from:  $ 4495.00*

Enterprise

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LB-3000

  • 2 or 5 virtual balancers
  • Cloud balancing ready
  • Datacenter unit

Starting from:  $ 8995.00*

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*Pricing note: based on Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price (MSRP) for North America.
This price excludes maintenance/support options and professional services. International prices may vary.
Shipping costs are not included.