Solutions for Site To Site VPNs

Accelerating Site to Site Data Communications

ML-IP boosts performance and reliability

Customers with multi-site installations using a variety of wide area networks, such as managed private IP services, Frame Relay (with IP access) or Public Internet VPNs, can boost the performance and reliability of their network by adding Multilink-IP (ML-IP) at each location requiring improved communications.

Use 2,3 or 4 broadband links concurrently between sites

ML-IP is a patent-pending protocol that allows an IP-capable WAN to use 2, 3 or 4 cost-effective xDSL connections (or traditional T-1/E-1 connections) concurrently between branch offices and head office. It works transparently with all xDSL modems, routers, firewalls and VPN gateways.

High availability by spreading links across multiple providers

ML-IP allows multiple broadband connections spanning different ISPs, improving availability. Should an ISP fail, ML-IP falls back to its remaining broadband connections. If there is a network wide carrier outage, ML-IP can fail over to multiple PSTN or ISDN dial backup links. Most solutions that add high link availability have extra broadband links sitting idle until there is an outage. ML-IP uses the bandwidth of all working links all the time.

Operates across a variety of last mile connections

No longer will customers hit the T-1/E-1 bandwidth brick wall or have to put up with s single xDSL connection because the jump to T-3/E-3 is not affordable or available. ML-IP delivers speeds spanning T-1 up to fractional T-3 using multiple low cost broadband or T-1/E-1 links. It requires no special support by the carrier or ISP as it works site-to-site over IP. Your customer can buy extra bandwidth when they need it and can have a variety of last mile connections including T-1, G.Lite ADSL, G.SHDSL, G.DAMT full rate ADSL, cable, etc. as ML-IP operates across any of these and more.

Improve bandwidth between up to 100 locations

ML-IP capable products from ePipe include the 2344 Multilink-IP gateway, which is suited for branch offices and the Multilink-IP Concentrator software for Linux, which is designed to operate on a server computer at the head office. The Concentrator can terminate 10, 50 or 100 branch offices, each with up to four broadband links.

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White Papers

Multi-Link IP: A New Dimension for Network Access (500K PDF, requires registration)
Larry Hettick, co-author of Network World’s bi-weekly Convergence Newsletter, says choosing the best access network topology that meets user’s growing demand for capacity is the single biggest challenge for enterprise network managers today.
ML-IP Achieves Universal Broadband Access (1.2M PDF)
Organizations with more than one office need to connect all their sites into a single, homogeneous Wide Area Network (WAN). Integrating these disparate services into a single corporate network is only one challenge. A single network connection at any site leaves that site (and possibly the entire network) vulnerable to a single point of failure. Furthermore, the bandwidth provided by existing WAN solutions is inflexible and rarely matches an organization’s requirements and budget.
What is ML-IP?
Examines what ML-IP is and how it works, and the benefits of using ML-IP based technololgy.

Customer Stories

Betta Stores Ltd
Betta Stores Limited (BSL) is an international group of owner-operated home appliance stores, with several hundred stores in Australia and New Zealand. For an organisation with stores spread over thousands of miles, instantaneous access to information has become essential. However, BSL needed a group-wide solution that was within the cost constraints of each of the stores, yet met the Group's need for secure, reliable and responsive data connections.
RAAF Association of WA
The RAAF Association (RAAFA ) operates a network of retirement villages and aged care facilities in Western Australia. As with any organisation with multiple sites, RAAFA faced the challenge of networking these sites together and distributing applications throughout the operation.