Mushroom Networks
Standalone TRUFFLE BBNA provides cost effective high speed Internet connectivity for companies that require high-end Internet connection speeds but are not willing to pay the high monthly subscription fees or in most cases, do not have those types of high speed services available to them. With TRUFFLE BBNA several broadband connections can be aggregated to create a virtual fat pipe for the business.
Virtual Leased Line for office to office communications: If there are multiple branch offices that need to be connected via leased lines, Mushroom’s Virtual Leased Line (VLL) solution provides a fast, reliable and cost effective bonded IP pipe between the offices. VLL is powered by TRUFFLE BBNA units installed at the office locations and enables the offices to bond their Internet access lines to create a virtual point-to-point fat pipe. Any type of traffic between the offices (including VPN traffic) will be bonded in both downlink and uplink directions. Cost effective ADSL/Cable lines can be bonded together to create a faster than T1 or E1 based leased line for fraction of the cost. Alternatively, existing T1 lines can be boosted with cost effective additional bandwidth.
Virtual Leased Line for office to Internet Data Center (IDC) communications: Similarly, VLL enables a fast, reliable and cost effective IP pipe between the office and its colocation at an IDC. In scenarios where the Internet traffic is funneled through the IDC, all the Internet traffic to/from the office will be able to leverage the bonded IP pipe speeds.
Virtual Leased Line for office to office communications: If there are multiple branch offices that need to be connected via leased lines, Mushroom’s Virtual Leased Line (VLL) solution provides a fast, reliable and cost effective bonded IP pipe between the offices. VLL is powered by TRUFFLE BBNA units installed at the office locations and enables the offices to bond their Internet access lines to create a virtual point-to-point fat pipe. Any type of traffic between the offices (including VPN traffic) will be bonded in both downlink and uplink directions. Cost effective ADSL/Cable lines can be bonded together to create a faster than T1 or E1 based leased line for fraction of the cost. Alternatively, existing T1 lines can be boosted with cost effective additional bandwidth.
Virtual Leased Line for office to Internet Data Center (IDC) communications: Similarly, VLL enables a fast, reliable and cost effective IP pipe between the office and its colocation at an IDC. In scenarios where the Internet traffic is funneled through the IDC, all the Internet traffic to/from the office will be able to leverage the bonded IP pipe speeds.
Truffle BBNA
The TRUFFLE BBNA (Broadband Bonding Network Appliance), is a one-sided Internet bonding appliance that provides aggregated Internet connectivity to small and medium size businesses (SMBs), enterprises, apartments, hotels, hospitals and other multi-tenant buildings via aggregating multiple Internet access lines for increased performance and reliability. With the TRUFFLE BBNA, multiple DSL, cable modem or T1 services can be combined to provide higher speed and more reliable Internet access.
The TRUFFLE BBNA provides a quick Return on Investment (ROI) and lower operating expenses. The total subscription costs of multiple Internet access lines are often substantially less than a single high-speed Internet access line of equivalent bandwidth. The payback period on the investment is often less than 6 months.
The TRUFFLE BBNA combines multiple Internet access lines, each on a 10/100baseT Ethernet interface, into a single aggregated Internet access line, again on a 10/100baseT Ethernet interface. The aggregation over the Internet access lines is done even for a single session, providing the full aggregate speed. The TRUFFLE BBNA6401 supports aggregation of up to 6 Internet access lines and additional cellular data cards. Each Internet access line may be through a DSL modem, cable modem, T1, MPLS, satellite modem, fractional DS3, DS3, fiber, cellular or any other broadband connection.
Downlink/uplink bonding in peered mode - Bonds Internet access lines for all types of traffic (including encrypted traffic such as VPN) for aggregated downlink and uplink capacity when peered over the Internet with another BBNA device located at the headquarter office or data center. For single office setups optional Broadband Bonding Service subscription enables downlink/uplink bonding.
Aggregated downlink capacity in standalone mode - When not peered with another BBNA device, all HTTP downlink sessions use the aggregated bandwidth of the combined Internet access links, even in the case of a single HTTP session. For non-HTTP downlink sessions and all uplink sessions, BBNA6401 provides session-based intelligent load balancing across the access links in standalone mode.
Cellular data WAN connection (optional) - TRUFFLE BBNA6401 supports the cellular data module via an optional PCMCIA bay or via a usb port. Through these interfaces a cellular data card can be plugged in as an additional WAN connection. The cellular data card can be configured for failover-only or always-on. In fail-over mode, in case of all the wired Internet access lines failing, the cellular data card will take over in less than 30 seconds.
Link failure recovery & link failover -In case of Internet access line failures, the BBNA6401 keeps the ongoing sessions alive by retransmitting the lost packets over the available access lines, even for the sessions in progress, without loss of data integrity. Additionally automatic failover protects against failures of one or more access link outages. 2G/3G cellular cards can be added as standby WAN access links for additional reliability.
Advanced QoS algorithms - All traffic routed through the BBNA6401 is intelligently managed to prioritize real-time traffic. Additionally a unique set of proprietary algorithms are implemented to improve inbound real-time traffic latency metrics such as VoIP applications.
Dynamic DNS load balancing - BBNA6401 can be configured to provide Dynamic DNS load-balancing for inbound requests for internally hosted servers such as web-server, ftp-server, mail-server etc.
Transparent installation – The existing Local Area Network does not require any changes. No coordination, new equipment or software is needed from the Internet Service Provider(s). A remotely accessable browser-based management interface provides quick and easy configuration and system monitoring.
Additional features include: DHCP server (can be turned off), state-full firewall (can be turned off), port forwarding, DMZ, UPnP support and others.