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Nantes Metropole Case Study

Nantes Métropole is the metropolitan area of Nantes, France. It is a state-owned company enabling cooperation among local councils comprising 24 townships that contain a total of 52,336 hectares and 580,000 inhabitants.
Challenges:
- First, add 2 ADSL ISP links to the group of two business-grade Internet carriers to increase Internet bandwidth dedicated to internal users without degrading the performance of priority applications
- Provide Internet access to internal users and give preference to professional usage
- Guarantee the available bandwidth for priority applications
- Increase the availability of the Internet access service by subscribing to another operator
- Second, add other ADSL accesses to increase the available bandwidth for exchanges with the Internet
Solution:
- One Elfiq Link LB-1500E
- Simultaneous use of four Internet links
- ITS GROUP for target architecture design
- Implementation of a service quality policy
Benefits:
- Availability of Internet services even should the group of two business-grade Internet carrier links fail
- Possibility of increasing Internet bandwidth by up to 90 Mbs without impacting internal equipment
- Real balancing of traffic load among four Internet accesses as per the service quality policy
- Optimized bandwidth, adapted use of Internet accesses and prevention of overload risk
Overview of Nante Metropole's Elfiq deployment:


