Businesses are more reliant than ever on stable and uninterrupted internet connectivity. A consistent and high-performance internet connection is crucial for maintaining operations for remote office work, cloud-based applications, or real-time communications. Let’s explore why SD-WAN PRO is the perfect solution for businesses seeking bonding and failover connectivity.

What is SD-WAN?

Software-Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN) is an advanced network architecture that enables businesses to simplify, optimise, and secure their wide area network (WAN). SD-WAN allows businesses to combine different types of internet connections, such as traditional wired broadband, 4G, 5G, satellite, and even wireless, into a single, unified service. This flexibility allows businesses to prioritise reliable, high-performance connections while maintaining seamless operations across multiple locations.

Anvil Mobile’s SD-WAN PRO leverages this powerful technology to provide businesses with a comprehensive solution that ensures bonding and failover capabilities. By integrating these features, SD-WAN PRO ensures businesses experience minimal disruption, even in the event of an internet connection failure.

How Failover Works with SD-WAN PRO

Failover is a critical feature for businesses that cannot afford downtime due to internet failures. Traditional internet backup solutions, such as 4G/5G routers, offer a basic failover mechanism. In this approach, when the primary broadband connection goes down, a backup 4G or 5G router can be used to maintain internet connectivity. However, these solutions can have limitations, such as using different IP addresses, which can disrupt services like remote access, VPNs, VoIP telephony, and CCTV systems.

Anvil Mobile’s SD-WAN PRO addresses these limitations by unifying multiple internet services under a single IPv4 IP address. When one connection fails, the SD-WAN solution automatically switches to the next available connection, ensuring the business stays online. The unique feature here is that the public IP address remains the same, meaning there is no disruption to remote access, VPNs, or VoIP services, making it a truly uninterrupted experience.

This failover solution provides unparalleled reliability, keeping businesses connected even in the face of network failures. The SD-WAN PRO ensures a seamless switch between different internet connections, whether a 4G router, 5G mobile broadband, or traditional broadband, without causing downtime or performance issues.

How Bonding Works with SD-WAN PRO

Bonding is another powerful feature of SD-WAN PRO that sets it apart from traditional internet backup solutions. Bonding allows businesses to combine multiple internet connections. This approach is ideal for businesses that require high-speed internet and cannot afford the disruptions caused by congestion or connection failures.

With SD-WAN PRO, the multiple internet services — including 5G, 4G, and broadband — are bonded together, enabling businesses to utilise the combined bandwidth of all the connections. This results in faster, more reliable internet speeds, making it perfect for high-demand applications such as media streaming, large-scale events, and point-of-sale (POS) systems at gatherings where high traffic can strain a single internet connection.

The bonding feature is handy for businesses in industries like retail, media, or large-scale events, where reliable, high-speed internet is necessary to support many users. Whether it’s ensuring robust internet connectivity for a live-streamed event or maintaining continuous POS transaction processing at a busy venue, SD-WAN PRO ensures that businesses have a reliable internet connection, no matter the circumstances.

Anvil Mobile’s SD-WAN PRO solution is designed to meet the demands of modern businesses, offering high-performance bonding and reliable failover solutions. Whether you’re running a small business or a large-scale enterprise, contact us below today and discover how it can optimise your business’s internet infrastructure.