?Using resilience and redundant links to improve site availability at Pindrop
Pindrop deployed a software defined wide area network (SD-WAN) solution using Fusion Broadband (FBSA) at a problematic site in Delmas. The primary broadband link is a rural fixed wireless connection that experiences 74 to 160 hours a month. The site has an LTE fail-safe and as a result the site never suffers an outage.
“Previous solutions for reliability and resilience at this site were never successful until we installed the FBSA SD-WAN”, states Willie Olivier, Managing Director of Pindrop. Pindrop is an integrated connectivity sales service platform for carriers, wholesalers, service providers and resellers to efficiently source, quote and connect through a simplified workflow, saving time and costs. Pindrop partners establish and manage both the relationships and all communications with their customers. In the back, Pindrop takes care of the rest with the partner in the driving seat.
Ronald Bartels, Head of Technology at FBSA adds, “In a site like this, LTE is a perfect option as a connectivity of last resort and our SD-WAN operates as an install and forget solution. This saves resources and prevents a business problem or crisis created by a lack of connectivity.”
The FBSA solution provides the following functions via its unique award-winning SD-WAN:
- Cost-efficient for easy adoptability using minimal technical skills to deploy or maintain;
- Bond any type of connection, such as fibre or wireless from any service provider in both directions;
- Maximize the aggregated link speeds, not a multiple of the slowest one;
- Interoperate with links of different latencies and speeds;
- Includes compression to accelerate packet delivery;
- Fail-safe on a link failure within 3/10 seconds
- Quality of Service from the backdoor of the LAN to the front door of the Internet
- Centralized management and monitoring; and
- Does not require DNS or other protocol hacks.
Peter Bokaba, senior engineer at Pindrop, summarizes the FBSA SD-WAN solution as follows:
