Bonded Cellular Broadband

[Mack4]

My company provides Bonded Cellular Broadband to remote locations, we are retiring a number of Peplink Max On The Go with Speedfusion as we upgrade our systems with new hardware/software.

You can find information on the units here: http://www.peplink.com/products/max-cellular-router/multi-cellular/

These units can take 4xUSB modems and 1xEthernet Connection to provided channel bonding for steaming video, email, web ect. They have onboard WiFi and 1xLAN Ethernet Port.

Peplink makes a great product for travelers, if you are looking for true bonding capability, PM me and I'll steer you int he right direction. But for something that is better than a cradle-point at about the same price point, Peplink does a fantastic job.

They retail for 599.99 we are selling them via ebay for $200.00/each. I have 10 available now, and will be adding more as we upgrade more of our legacy hardware.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/331682424740?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

 

[IndyRubicon]

Can you explain in layman's terms? Perhaps give an example? I'm not sure I get it.

 

[Rickbfried]

I'll do it. Think of it as having four MiFi's plugged into a device that moves data four times faster than one MiFi almost, but close enough to understand what it does.

 

[workerdrone]

So you could buy 4 mifi's with subscriptions, from, say, Verizon,

And these let you use them all at once for 4x the speed?

That would be some expensive steaming video But if you have a business case for it I guess...

Or am I not getting it either

 

[Rickbfried]

Almost, but you have to "tie" those four MiFi's together into one router. That's what this gizmo does.

 

[Mack4]

Just saw these replies, the Peplink sort of does this. We have discovered through use, that the Peplink Bonding is only good for a 15-30% bond, where our new bonding software can bond up to 85% of the combined modems bandwidth. If you're looking for bonding, I would stay away from Peplink. Used in lieu of a cradle-point, they are pretty competitive though, if you don't experience the same software issues we were having. Peplink's main issue is the inability to balance WAN links that have dissimilar latency. Efficient bonding depends on a similar latency profile, you can't have the packets from Modem 1 arriving twice as fast as Modem 2. We went out on a limb and deployed those Peplink products in our installations and it ended up eating our lunch, which is why we are selling them all!

There is a good explanation of this technology on our website www.oilfieldcellular.com

We started using this tech for Oil and Gas mainly, We used to rent 12 leg Bonders to bond AT&T, Verizon and Sprint modems together to get extremely high throughput and low latency on remote drilling locations, which would be crazy expensive for an individual, but very affordable for an Oil and Gas Operator. That business has dried up recently (Thanks Saudi!), and we are now deploying our bonding routers to combine WAN links like DSL, T1 and Fixed wireless to achieve high throughput and reliability.

Here is a good example of bonding tech in action from a remote site in Nevada, you can see we have two Legs (Connections to the Internet), one is a AT&T modem, one is a Verizon Modem. We bond both connections together and get a pretty high percentage bond from those two links. If we added more Legs, we could achieve higher throughput.