The internet is down
This is disastrous for any kind of business, not matter if you are a retail shop, hospital, law firm or a school. Imagine; customers can’t pay, security systems are down, patient can’t be monitored, client cases can’t be accessed and the learning system is down…. All negative consequences. The level of your network’s redundancy depends upon several factors, whereas downtime may be the most important one.
But what exactly is redundancy?
According to Google, ‘’network redundancy is a process through which additional or alternate instances of network devices, equipment and communication mediums are installed within network infrastructure. It is a method for ensuring network availability in case of a network device or path failure and unavailability. As such, it provides a means of network failover.’’
However, in case an IoT network relies solely on a single form of network connectivity (e.g. 4G or DSL) or one provider, operational risk of downtime will be significantly higher.
It is therefore crucial for IoT systems, that the network infrastructure is high redundant and no matter what happens to the network infrastructure the business remains online, the connection(s) will continue.
Our secret
Bonding is the glue that holds the various connections of different providers together in order for the critical applications to stay online. The bonding technique creates one single virtual broadband line based upon all the combined broadband bandwidths from all the different networking media (e.g. 4G and DSL). An interruption of one of the individual lines will not affect the critical applications using the bonded link. Resulting in seamless redundancy; never offline.
