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The 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.
The 3 major benefits
Starting from:US$ 6995.00*
(MSRP)
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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"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
Advanced Balancing Algorithms:Balancing methods for inbound and outbound traffic
Policy-based traffic segmentation using multiple links
Proactive traffic promoting and limiting
Inbound balancing feature utilizing all available ISP links
Service verification for environments with multiple identical servers
Intelligent Condition Verificator:The Intelligent Condition Verificator enables complex condition-based configurations.
Time of Day Conditions:Elfiq Networks' Link Balancer can adjust automatically its configuration based on time-based conditions
Maximum uptime for single unit deployments
Redundant units for high availability environments
SIP Aware Link Balancer:Enables enhanced SIP-based VoIP deployments
Point to point application acceleration and resilience
Manage inbound and outbound traffic across multiple physical locations
Remote configuration with USB flash drives
Virtualization for concurrent balancers in the same unit
| 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) |
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| High availability support | Yes |
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| 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 |
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| Format | Rackmount 1U | |||
| Hardware warranty | 12 months | |||
| *: includes the total capacity of all Virtual Forwarding Interfaces (VFIs) | ||||

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