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Seamless Connectivity with Digi WAN Bonding

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In today’s digital landscape, businesses and organisations of all sizes require reliable and secure network connections to meet increasing demands. Digi WAN bonding helps to address this need. 

What is Digi WAN Bonding?

Digi WAN Bonding offers a robust connectivity solution that merges multiple connections into one, to provide seamless, high-performance, and resilient internet access worldwide. By integrating various connectivity options, including cellular failover and policy-based routing, Digi WAN Bonding ensures uninterrupted service and optimal performance, even in challenging environments. 

Advanced Connectivity Features

Digi devices are equipped with a range of advanced connectivity features designed to prevent external network failures from causing downtime, such as their SureLink®, policy-based routing, and interface bonding. These capabilities collectively safeguard against disruptions, maintaining consistent network performance. 

Digi WAN Bonding protects against network disruption. It addresses this potential vulnerability by aggregating multiple connections, maximising speed and throughput, reducing latency, and optimising overall performance. This service offers continuous, intelligent optimisation, even in mobile environments such as vehicles. 

Digi WAN Bonding not only combines multiple cellular and wired connections but also delivers the lowest latency across bonded interfaces. It ensures resilient and seamless handover while providing throughput that reflects the combined capabilities of the connected interfaces. 

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Remote Management and Security

Digi WAN Bonding serves as a valuable extension to Digi Remote Manager® (Digi RM), a cloud-based platform that enables easy integration and centralised management of network connectivity. Through Digi RM, users can monitor and manage devices from any location, leveraging a proven platform that consolidates command and control functions into a single interface. 

The integration of Bondix S.A.NE software, developed in collaboration with Bondix Intelligence, further enhances the capabilities of Digi WAN Bonding. This software enables intelligent connection management, optimising the performance and resilience of Digi’s connectivity solutions through Digi RM. 

Ensuring Uptime for Vehicles

Maintaining consistent connectivity in vehicles, such as buses and trains, is crucial for many applications. While multiple cellular connections with failover can prevent downtime if one connection fails, the quality of these connections can degrade as the vehicle moves. Digi WAN Bonding intelligently balances these connections based on metrics such as packet loss and latency. When a connection begins to degrade, it is only used when the most effective connection is saturated, ensuring consistent and reliable connectivity. 

Enhanced Bandwidth and Performance

Digi WAN Bonding combines symmetric wired connectivity with asymmetric cellular connectivity, enabling greater total throughput than either connection could achieve individually. This combined approach maintains low latency even under heavy load, reducing the impact of intensive data transfers on other network users.

Features and Benefits of Digi WAN Bonding

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Digi WAN Bonding offers a range of features that enhance network performance and reliability: 

  • Hot Failover: The bonded tunnel interface remains active across all WAN links, ensuring uninterrupted connectivity.
  • WAN Aggregation: Multiple WAN links are combined to increase speed and bandwidth.
  • WAN Smoothing: Latency and jitter are reduced, maintaining a stable connection.
  • WAN Prioritisation: The system automatically selects or allows manual setting of the best active WAN link.
  • Packet Duplication: Critical data packets are replicated across multiple WAN links to ensure delivery. 

These features ensure no packet loss or failover wait time, increase speed and bandwidth, and maintain connection resilience, making Digi WAN Bonding an ideal solution for mission-critical applications. 

Digi WAN Bonding Use Cases

Digi WAN Bonding is well-suited for a variety of applications across different sectors, including offices, retail, industrial, energy, and transportation. The solution offers resilient and critical connectivity, making it an essential tool for maintaining seamless connectivity in diverse environments.

Digi WAN Bonding: Available Now

Westbase.io is a leading Digi distributor in the UK and EU. Digi WAN Bonding is now available. Order today by contacting your account manager on +44 (0) 1291 437 567, +31 (0) 35 799 2290 or hello@westbase.io.

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