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Link Balancer with Microsoft technologyMicrosoft communications infrastructure products are key components of many organizations’ information technology strategies and the reliability of the services delivered by these products is mission-critical. A common point of failure in these environments is reliance on a single Internet link to communicate with services outside the organizations’ networks such as email, Voice over IP, instant messaging and more.

Elfiq Link Balancer products play a key role in completing Microsoft communications solutions by ensuring that communications and services are available. The link balancer provides the ability to manage multiple Internet/WAN connections, resulting in a redundant communication infrastructure and removing the usual single point of failure of having only one Internet connection.

An additional benefit is that bandwidth addition is very quick and transparent, so when the number of users increases and performance begins to degrade, the Elfiq unit will accommodate any IP communications link the organization acquires. Typical links include DSL, cable modems, T1, T3, satellite, 3G mobile, fiber, and microwave.

For larger organizations, Elfiq enables maximum availability through the use of its SitePathMTPX link resilience technology and its Geolink geographic balancing technology, ensuring connectivity across multiple physical sites.

Microsoft Platforms which can benefit from integration with Elfiq
  • Small Business Server 
  • Sharepoint Server 
  • Exchange Server 
  • Internet Information Services Server (IIS)
  • Dynamics Server and CRM Server 
  • Commerce Server
  • Office Communications Server 
  • Internet Security & Acceleration Server  (ISA)
  • Groove Server 
  • BizTalk Server

 

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 Microsoft products
  • Enables bandwidth provider diversification to prevent downtime
SIP-Awareness
Elfiq SIP
 Enables resilient VoIP communications
  • Enables Office Communications Server to operate even if an ISP for the SIP trunk fails

iDNS
Elfiq

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

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, Microsoft servers will continue operating
High Availability
Elfiq HA		 Redundant unit management
  • Enables maximum uptime for bandwidth availability for Microsoft environments
QoS and Traffic Segmentation
Elfiq QOS		 Bandwidth allocation management
  • Ensures that each Microsoft 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