?SD-WAN: Kiosk use case
The biggest problem associated with kiosks is that often the only viable connectivity is from mobile providers. This usually involves a 3G router attached in this neck of the savannah to either Vodacom or MTN. But often, even when the better connection in an area is selected there are still outages.
The next level in router provided the ability to use two SIM slots with the ability to fail-over. The problem with this strategy is that the mobile providers disable SIMs which have not pinged the network for a few days. So when the fail-over is required, it ironically fails!
Enter Fusion Broadband with its innovative Jaguar based SD-WAN edge that uses two active radio modems to connect to mobile providers. The architecture ensures a continuous keep alive ping to both SIMs and thus the above scenario where fail-over does not work is prevented.
Additionally, Fusion's SD-WAN is able to aggregate the mobile data bandwidth using bonding, thereby also being able to increase performance and throughput at the kiosk.
Ronald Bartels provides solutions to networking and last mile reliability problems. The solution from Fusion Broadband allows a business to stay 100% connected, avoid downtime and keep working. The Fusion Broadband solution has been installed in many vertical industries including state owned and private entities.In addition to the IBM Beacon Award 2020 for Infrastructure Services, the solution is a mature software platform that has over 2000 installed instances of multiple site private wide area networking deployments.