Comments on: Small Businesses Lead VoIP Charge http://www.smallbizpod.co.uk/blog/2007/03/27/small-businesses-lead-voip-charge/ The small business blog of SmallBizPod - inspiration and practical advice for entrepreneurs Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:39:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Keith Collins http://www.smallbizpod.co.uk/blog/2007/03/27/small-businesses-lead-voip-charge/#comment-8347 Keith Collins Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:38:29 +0000 http://www.smallbizpod.co.uk/blog/2007/03/27/small-businesses-lead-voip-charge/#comment-8347 Hello Alex Because we are bonding at the IP layer our software gets the routers on each individual line to collaborate on the user's LAN. (Note the routers only have to be on the LAN to discover each other - so they don't have to be colocated - but where ever the telephone lines are already). They route individual packets on different lines (using an alogoithm) which are then pulled back together by an aggregation server sitting on the internet backbone. (This is hosted by a service provider). This means that the lines appear to your applications as one large virtual connection (not several tied together)- true aggregation (not load balancing). It also means that the aggregation is completely agnostic of the infrastructure (BT or LLU), ISP or even technology (i.e. cable and ADSL) - hence the ability to build in resilience as if one line fails the software adjusts to work on what remains. Its a very smart solution to an problem that's not going away fast - especially for SME's who can't justify the cost of a private leased line and we just launched this week with our first ISP partner - KeConnect. Hope that answers your question - but fire away with any more! Thanks Keith Hello Alex
Because we are bonding at the IP layer our software gets the routers on each individual line to collaborate on the user’s LAN. (Note the routers only have to be on the LAN to discover each other - so they don’t have to be colocated - but where ever the telephone lines are already).

They route individual packets on different lines (using an alogoithm) which are then pulled back together by an aggregation server sitting on the internet backbone. (This is hosted by a service provider).

This means that the lines appear to your applications as one large virtual connection (not several tied together)- true aggregation (not load balancing).

It also means that the aggregation is completely agnostic of the infrastructure (BT or LLU), ISP or even technology (i.e. cable and ADSL) - hence the ability to build in resilience as if one line fails the software adjusts to work on what remains.

Its a very smart solution to an problem that’s not going away fast - especially for SME’s who can’t justify the cost of a private leased line and we just launched this week with our first ISP partner - KeConnect.

Hope that answers your question - but fire away with any more! Thanks Keith

]]> By: Alex Bellinger http://www.smallbizpod.co.uk/blog/2007/03/27/small-businesses-lead-voip-charge/#comment-8337 Alex Bellinger Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:55:45 +0000 http://www.smallbizpod.co.uk/blog/2007/03/27/small-businesses-lead-voip-charge/#comment-8337 Hi Keith - indeed an interesting new street you appear to be up. Do you actually aggregate bandwidth across a small office network or are we essentially talking about several standard ADSL connections contained within one pipe, as it were? Hi Keith - indeed an interesting new street you appear to be up. Do you actually aggregate bandwidth across a small office network or are we essentially talking about several standard ADSL connections contained within one pipe, as it were?

]]> By: Keith Collins http://www.smallbizpod.co.uk/blog/2007/03/27/small-businesses-lead-voip-charge/#comment-8016 Keith Collins Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:03:33 +0000 http://www.smallbizpod.co.uk/blog/2007/03/27/small-businesses-lead-voip-charge/#comment-8016 I normally follow David Tebbutt's blog and linked through to find this interesting post that's right up my "new" street - so to speak. I recently started with a technology start up business (see http://www.sharedband.com ) that has developed software that makes it possible to bond ADSL lines at the IP layer. Compared to traditional bonding or load balancing solutions which are expensive and complex, we use commodity hardware making it much more scaleable, flexible and cost effective for SME's to get the bandwidth they need to be able to deploy VoIP and all other new bandwidth hungry applications like offsite data back up etc. I normally follow David Tebbutt’s blog and linked through to find this interesting post that’s right up my “new” street - so to speak. I recently started with a technology start up business (see http://www.sharedband.com ) that has developed software that makes it possible to bond ADSL lines at the IP layer. Compared to traditional bonding or load balancing solutions which are expensive and complex, we use commodity hardware making it much more scaleable, flexible and cost effective for SME’s to get the bandwidth they need to be able to deploy VoIP and all other new bandwidth hungry applications like offsite data back up etc.

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