Cloud Connect combines the bandwidth of multiple public connections (from nearly any carrier) into a single, faster, more reliable virtual connection that can be used to securely access Evolve IP’s Cloud and the Internet and replace expensive WAN connections.
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By bonding your multiple (low cost) connections, Cloud Connect:
- Dramatically increases your network speed
- Increases reliability with automatic failover
- Provides bi-directional QoS over public networks
- Provides a cost effective alternative to MPLS networks
Most importantly, Cloud Connect is delivered, managed and supported by Evolve IP, regardless of who delivers the connections to your office, ensuring your business can access its critical cloud-based resources whenever they’re needed.
Cloud Connect Provides
- Fully managed network bonding service: Traffic to and from your network goes through a server that distributes the data among the individual connections in the bond. At your site it is recombined into the original data stream by a small device connected to your existing firewall or router. All traffic is monitored in our NOC, to ensure your lines are healthy and your service uptime is optimized.
- Aggregation and Compression of all available connections: You no longer have to choose between slow, unreliable, inexpensive broadband Internet or costly leased lines. Internet connections of different types, providers, speeds, and latencies can be bonded. Use a combination of DSL, cable, fiber, fixed or mobile wireless, T1, etc. Cloud Connect makes available the total combined bandwidth of all connections and compresses traffic increasing the aggregate throughput by up to 5x.
- Immediate Failover: Cloud Connect detects a failed connection almost instantly- within 0.3 seconds- and removes it from the bond. Your Voice calls don’t drop, your Virtual Desktop sessions aren’t interrupted, your backups stay current. The only change is a reduction in bandwidth equal to the speed of the failed connection. When a connection is restored, it is added back to the bond within 0.1 seconds. Failover and failback has NO implication on DNS like traditional load balancing.
- QoS over Internet: Cloud Connect prioritizes your critical application traffic between the local appliance and Evolve IP’s core which acts as your central on-ramp to the Internet. This design enables us to prioritize traffic in both directions, make routing decisions on the quality of each connection and provide a better experience that is consistent with MPLS-based QOS. The Quality of Service engine reacts dynamically and adjusts itself to accommodate heavy and light usage of specific applications, ensuring they get the bandwidth they need, when the need it.
- Enterprise Security and Encryption: Cloud Connect supports VPN and private network connections, encrypts communication between the appliance and our network, authenticates all bonded traffic back to Evolve IP’s cloud. When coupled with Evolve IP security services such as Cloud Firewall, Cloud Connect is a great complement to your Defense in Depth strategy
- Backup for your backup: Cloud Connect also supports a single dedicated failover connection, used only when all the other connections in the bond have failed. This is useful to have, for example, a 3G cellular connection as a backup but to avoid its usage-based charges under normal circumstances.
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