elfiq multiple is ps for cost control & performance
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Multiple ISPs for performance and cost controlJean Pascal Hebert
VP Business Development
October 27th, 2009
Agenda1. Business realities2. Internet-related costs
• Hard costs• Soft costs
3. How Elfiq Networks helps• ROI• Key features• Models
4. About Elfiq Networks5. Questions
Business realities• The Internet is a key business factor for
any organization in any vertical• Email• VPN for mobile users• VPN for remote sites• Web-based applications (transactions, OWA,
sales-based applications, etc.)
• The two common concerns:• Performance• Availability
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Business reality: ISP failures• What to expect:
• Average downtime per month: 1.7 outages• Average duration per hard downtime: 67 minutes• Average total hard time per year: 23 hours• Average % of employees affected: 28%
• Contributing factors1:• 32%: link failure• 36%: router maintenance• 23%: router failure• 9%: other (human error, etc.)
© Elfiq, Inc., Confidential and Proprietary1: The Costs of Downtime: North American Medium Businesses 2006, Infonetics Research, March 2006.
Internet access hard costs• Standard costs associated with Internet
access:• ISP circuit(s) – can be expensive• Equipment
• Hard costs related to connectivity failures and saturation:• IT department personnel productivity and
project delays• Lost sales and transactions
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Internet access soft costs• Other source of trouble: ISP link saturation
• Overtaxed carrier circuit• Low-quality connections• Media-rich surfing and events
• Productivity impacts:• Staff « cannot work without the Internet » &
« watercooler effect »• « Did you get my email? »
• Catch-up on Internet-based activities• Business process disruptions • IT: managerial concerns and pressure
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• Common connectivity setup:
How Elfiq can help
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Internet
Internal users
Corporateservices
Web-basedapplications
ISP
Web application users and customers
Mobilecorporate users
InternetBranchOffice
How Elfiq can help• Multiple ISP setup
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Internet
Internal usersWeb-basedapplications
T1
3G Mobile
DSL
Cable modem
Fiber
Web application users and customers
Mobilecorporate users
BranchOfficeInternet
Corporateservices
ROI
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• Before:• Circuits installed at
property: 2x T1’s• Monthly costs: $450 per
link per month: $900• Total throughput:
3.0Mbps symmetrical
• Yearly cost: $10,800
• After• Circuits installed at
property: 1x T1, 1x DSL, 1x cable modem
• Monthly costs: • T1: $450/month• DSL: $75/month• Cable modem:
$100/month
• Total throughput: • Downstream: 17.5Mbps• Upstream: 3.1Mbps
• Yearly cost: $7500
ROI
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• ROI:• Yearly telecom savings: $3300 or 30.8%• This excludes the costs related to the Elfiq Link
Balancer• Payback period: approximately 6 months• Throughput gain:
• Downstream: 17.5Mbps (from 3.0Mbps)• Upstream: no reduction of total throughput
Key Elfiq Features• Outbound and inbound balancing• LAN Failsafe: bypass in case of outage• High availability• Traffic segmentation to align traffic types
to specific links• QoS: minimum & maximum thoughput
limits• Condition-based configurations• Time-based configurations
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Key Elfiq Features• Server & service availability verification• Point to point resilience w/2+ units• Geographic balancing• SIP failover for VoIP• USB configuration• Virtualized balancers
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Elfiq Models
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LB-550B
LB-550E
LB-1100E
LB-1500E
LB-2500E
LB-3000
LB-4000E
Max throughput (Full Duplex)
50Mbps 80Mbps 120Mbps 180Mbps
980Mbps
1.6Gbps 2.4Gbps
Max throughput (Half Duplex)
25Mbps 40Mbps 60Mbps 90Mbps 490Mbps
800Mbps
1.2Gbps
Max # of ISPs 2 3 6 16 64 160 320
Format Desktop & 1U
Desktop & 1U
Desktop & 1U
1U 1U 1U 1U
Support for 100Mbps links?
N N N N Y Y Y
MSRP $US $1795 $2495 $3495 $4495 $6995 $8995 $11995
Elfiq Corporate Overview• Founded in 2003• Innovation leader in the field of link
balancing• Bandwidth virtualisation – SitePathMTPX• Multisite geographic balancing
• Successful installations of Elfiq products in 55+ countries
• Strategic alliances:
Elfiq customers
Questions• How to contact Elfiq Networks
• www.elfiq.com• [email protected]• 888-GO-ELFIQ• 514-667-0611
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you!
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