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Retail Elfiq

The retail sector handles significant amounts of data on an hourly basis, from inventory management and order processing to credit card processing. In this context, access to bandwidth is essential for daily activities, and customer purchase processing can be significantly impacted.

By utilizing Elfiq’s Link Balancer products, retailers can significantly improve their ability to conduct business at all levels of the organization. Head office can ensure it has the ability to function normally and deliver core services to branches such as email, inventory management, customer order processing and much more.

Retail locations can benefit from Elfiq’s products by adding low-cost bandwidth to complement existing bandwidth so staff can consult the Internet without impacting corporate IP communications such as transaction processing and VoIP. In case of the failure of all “wire-based” ISPs, wireless links, such as 3G mobile links and WiMAX, can be utilized to ensure maximum uptime.

 

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 products
  • Enables bandwidth provider diversification to prevent downtime with low-cost and wireless ISP links
iDNS
Elfiq		 Balance inbound traffic
  • Proactively distribute traffic for remote users, branches and applications
  • Provide failover capacity for remote users

Intelligent Service Verificator
Elfiq ISV

 Proactively distribute traffic to best available servers
  • Ensures data requests are sent to servers operating normally
  • Prevents requests from being 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