Sea Cloud’s sea vessels require an uninterrupted high-speed internet connection while traveling at sea to provide access to both the crew and their guests. SD-WAN Pro  bonds a mix of LTE/5G connections and one ka-SAT as a backup to fill the connectivity gaps where the LTE/5G network is unavailable.

LTE/5G bonding to achieve high throughput

By bonding a mix of LTE and 5G connections, the ships are enjoying a high speed bonded Internet connection, especially while travelling near the shore, where LTE and 5G signal reception is good.

Static IP address for remote access

The SD-WAN Pro offers by default at least one static public IPv4, allowing remote connections to the in-house hosted services, remote access to the ship’s CCTV, and remote troubleshooting on the ship’s IT infrastructure

Universal solution on multiple Sea Vessels

The same setup is applied to three sea vessels. The connectivity performance and availability are monitored in real-time through our cloud network monitoring system. The same setup can be applied to any sea vessel regardless of location and ISP networks

DNS Filtering

Sea Cloud Cruise ships need a way to filter guest access to specific sites and applications to comply with local legal requirements. SD-WAN Pro has been configured to redirect all DNS requests to a DNS filter, restricting access to torrents.

Uninterrupted access via Least cost routing

Since Ka-SAT comes with high data costs, it is configured as a failover connection to be used only when no other link is available. This setup offers the lowest possible operational cost, as all traffic is routed via the connections with the lowest costs first

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Our Client is a world leading insulation material manufacturer and maintains large warehouses where forklifts move merchandise based on a telematic application running on Android tablets. They deployed SD-WAN Pro to bond connectivity from their WiFi infrastructure with cellular LTE. By bonding these two internet sources under a single static IPv4 we achieved 100% uptime with full in-house control.

Support for LTE and WiFi links

The custom built SD-WAN Pro hardware integrates an internal LTE modem and a WiFi module, to support both a cellular connection and a WiFi connection via the available access points.

Universal solution on a global scale

Our client maintains similar warehouses around the world where the SD-WAN Pro solution is deployed using different local internet carriers. The SD- WAN Pro solution offers multiple service Points of Presence (PoPs) around the world to minimize latency and offer regional IP addresses to cater to local compliance requirements.

Portable solution

SD-WAN Pro can be provided along with a 16000mAh battery pack to allow it to operate for 6 hours without an external power source.

Ultra Small factor / custom-built Hardware appliance

The available space on the forklifts for mounting the connectivity devices is very small. Therefore, the SD-WAN Pro models that are deployed are ultra-small appliances that fit within a QuSpot antenna, enabling optimal WiFi and LTE signal reception as well as IP67 ingress protection.

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Each of our clients military camp utilises our state-of-the-art bonding technology to bond a variety of diverse access technologies per site to offer the required resilience. All sites bond one Starlink, one LTE, and one Microwave connection to achieve more than 500 Mbps bonded throughput and unprecedented service uptime.

Carrier neutral implementation

The main requirement for the connectivity solution is to be carrier-neutral, for advanced resilience and infrastructure flexibility. SD-WAN Pro is implemented on the network layer, allowing carrier-neutral connectivity solutions anywhere in the world.

DNS filtering

Internet access needs to filtered to each site with specific applications to enhance productivity and limit security risks. SD-WAN Pro has been configured to redirect all DNS requests to a DNS filter, restricting access to-provided access lists only

Customer’s owned VPNs over bonded connections

SD-Wan Pro is transparent to the customer’s VPN tunnels which are established using the IPsec protocol.

DDoS protection

All solutions offered to The military have a DDoS Protection mechanism enabled to safeguard the attached IPv4 addresses from Distributed Denial of Service attacks. The mechanism mitigates, on average, eight attacks per month per site

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The seamless failover and WAN optimisation provided by the SD-WAN Pro solution enables the professional eSports gamer to benefit from a guaranteed internet connection which can be the difference between winning and losing

Bonding cellular and satellite to mitigate latency

Our client is a streamer who regularly broadcasts on twitch.tv. The are based in a remote location within the UK where fixed line and LTE is poor and unreliable. Our client uses Starlink satellite service and then bonds with 3 x LTE lines to mitigate the high satellite latency of 500ms . The bonded line provides an aggregated latency of less than 100ms with a highly resilient and redundant service providing 1GBPS throughput.

QoS over WAN links

We setup the QoS functionality which reserves a specific bandwidth percentage (%) for the stream ensuring that no other connected device can impact the quality of the steam

Interactive Streaming

The poor latency using solely the Starlink connection negatively impacted the ‘’ shout out ‘’ competitions where the broadcaster ran competitions where split second audience participation was imperative

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The Bank’s project required the bandwidth aggregation servers to be hosted on their own data cloud server infrastructure, both for security compliance and to allow the solution to have visibility of their private point-to-point IP connections.

Bond MPLS and public Internet connections

Each remote branch can establish a bonded connection to the Banks’s data center by bonding a mix of satellite – LTE  and private WAN connections such as MPLS. All traffic is encrypted end-to-end via industry standard encryption algorithms and authentication protocols.

Hub-n-spoke VPNs

All remote CPEs establish an encrypted connection with the bank’s HQ, creating a hub-and-spoke VPN.

LTE for failover

All of the bank’s branches use an LTE-enabled CPE to enable additional network resilience via a cellular failover connection. The failover mechanism is transparent, maintaining all active sessions and offering an unbreakable VPN connection with the bank’s HQ

Forward Error Correction for VoIP

All Bank branches use VoIP for internal and external telephone communications. The solution is configured with a specific QoS class and enabled with redundant mode to ensure that VoIP communications run smoothly with no packet loss, and the lowest possible jitter and latency.

Plug ‘n’ Play solution

The activation of the solution at each bank’s remote branch is plug-n-play as all units are shipped to the branch locations preconfigured according to the Bank’s network configuration.

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Amazon require a reliable, high-performing connectivity solution to connect their warehouses to their HQ. These warehouses are often located outside urban areas where fixed-line availability is limited or unreliable. Therefore, to provide a fully resilience and redundant internet connection multiple internet sources are required.

Cellular bonding to achieve high throughput

Amazon requires a minimum throughput of 1Gbps at each warehouse. Therefore, the solution is deployed with multiple 4/5G cellular connections bonded with fixed line(s) at each site into a single connection that meets the required performance level.

Universal solution on a global scale

The solution is standardised so that Amazon can use it globally with guaranteed performance and reliability. It is currently deployed at Warehouses in The EU, The UK, US, Canada, the Middle East, Australia and India.

Carrier neutral implementation

The solution needed to support multiple carriers for network redundancy. The warehouse connectivity is critical; therefore, our M2M global SIM cards are deployed with the solution. These SIM cards support at least two carriers per site to enable greater flexibility, reliability, and control, improving performance significantly and minimising downtime

Plug ‘n’ Play solution

The solution is offered as a fully managed, plug-and-play bonded cellular connection in all required locations. Amazon engineers only need to connect the portable travel case CPE to a power plug and the LAN cable to their edge router at each warehouse, regardless of the warehouse location or country

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African banking regulators are advocating for greater access to financial services, particularly in rural areas where physical bank branches can be hard to come by. Unfortunately, internet accessibility remains a major obstacle towards achieving this goal – while satellite-delivered broadband is becoming increasingly common, latency issues still make it difficult for banks and other businesses that require reliable connections. Cellular networks have made progress in some more remote communities but there’s been little improvement when it comes to fixed line infrastructure deployments.

This is gradually improving with the recent growth of internet delivered by satellite (Satcom, Eutelsat, Starlink, Yahlink) but satellite availability is by no means widespread and the poor latency (>500ms) is still a negative factor. Cellular networks are slowly expanding into rural communities but there is little evidence of any growth in fixed line deployment in rural areas.

Problem

Our customer approached us to help the following problems:

• Only 2 main sources of internet available
• Satellite connectivity is inhibited by poor latency (>500ms)
• Cellular connectivity can be available but the signal can be fragile and maybe not all of the networks offer services in specific rural areas
• Linking multiple locations into a wide area network can be complex

Solution

The solution to all the problems is provided by the SD-WAN Pro solution – how ?

• Bonding multiple internet connections aggregates bandwidth
• A low latency cellular connection bonded with a high latency satellite connection mitigates (maybe moderates) the high latency of the satellite connection
• Connecting multiple SD-WAN pro boxes in different locations creates a wide area network that is totally secure

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