FatPipe Networks Blog

18 Nov

Software Defined Network

SDN is one of the most important trends for the future Internet and regional networks. You do not need to program, configure, or troubleshoot each network device individually. Instead, you can just sit in a centralized management office and customize your network based on the different needs whether it be scientific experiments, business management, home networks control, and local community communications.

SDN is a cutting edge technology. SDN can dynamically model and shape traffic depending on what is required. Essentially what happens is SDN separates Networking into a control plane and a data plane. The data plane contains all hardware such as switches, routers, bridges that allow packets to go from point A to point B. The control plane is a set of management servers that communicate with the different networking equipment in the data plane and determines how the data should move on the data plane.

FatPipe is a pioneer in software defined networks for wide area connectivity, having developed patented products for software defined WANs over the last 10 years. FatPipe Networks invented the concept of using software to manage routers of any kind for routing data over wide area networks from corporate to branch office connectivity for reliable, redundant and application delivery management. This enables a customer to deploy a self managed, self healing wide area network in any part of the world in about an hour per location, increasing network reliability of up to 99.999988%.

FatPipe’s unique hybrid multi-line wide area networking technologies uses intelligent software to bring in a variety of innovation to the network infrastructure domain. Application performance can be improved with quality of service rules and FatPipe can provide you improvement and visibility for individual applications for enhanced user experience.

17 Sep

Network Outages Again Today

FatPipe was hit with numerous phone calls today by potential customers whose primary ISP connection went down. After some research we discovered several tier 1 ISP’s were experiencing outages today. FatPipe customers are a lot less vulnerable to these type of outages.

FatPipe products combine multiple data lines from multiple data providers into one single fail proof network. In case, one line fails, the data is automatically re-routed through other available data network providers. Many Fortune 1000 companies and numerous institutions use FatPipe to avoid such a problem.

The FatPipe enabled redundant network provides the following advantages:

99.99+% network redundancy
Automatic fail over of VoIP, VPN, and Thin clients in case a line fails without dropping the sessions
Network redundancy and reliability for a global network
Multi-line WAN optimization and acceleration to maximize data flow including ritualized software for data centers
Automatic fail over to DR sites, without the problems that most cloud services have had when it comes to failing over to a DR site
Smart DNS for in-bound load balancing
For global deployments, there is no need for data provider cooperation as BGP is not needed.

04 Sep

FatPipe is Exhibiting at Cloud Partners 2014

Companies are centralizing applications that were traditionally hosted on local machines in a branch to a centralized data center and to the cloud. Maintaining WAN Connectivity is crucial in a virtualized environment. Centralization of IT Resources provides cost savings and security benefits, these benefit can be wiped out in a single network outage. Companies migrate to cloud applications for flexibility, availability and cost savings. Shouldn’t the wide area network architecture align with these same benefits?

FatPipe will be showcasing our MPSec technology, which enables companies to align their WAN architecture with cloud computing initiative, at Cloud Partners 2014 September 8 – 10 in New Orleans, LA. We will be located at booth #818. This trade show is an opportunity with reseller partners to see how FatPipe can fit into their cloud portfolio.

For information on becoming a FatPipe partner or to schedule on on site meeting in New Orleans, CLICK HERE

01 Sep

The Global Reach of FatPipe Networks

Do you know the global reach of FatPipe Networks?

FatPipe has current customers on 6 of the 7 continents (Antarctica is still pending)
FatPipe provides round-the-clock technical support to our customers though full staffed support centers in Salt Lake City, UT, USA and Chennai, India
FatPipe has a sales and distribution network that spans North & South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia.

Whether you are in the center of Silicon Valley or the furthest outreaches of the global, FatPipe has the ability to assist in the design, installation, and support of FatPipe in your network.

28 Aug

Answers for Today’s K-12 Network

Summer time fun is over and kids all over the country are going back to school or are already back in school. The image of a small kid hauling a backpack filled with books is fast fading in favor of computer savvy kids with laptop, smart phones, tablets, and ipad’s! Juxtaposed with the rapid movement of teaching, homework assignments, student records on line, etc. are bound to increase the workload and stress of most network administrators.

The Internet plays a vital part of daily activity in today’s K-12 network. Students, teachers and administrators are using this tool as a means of expanding the classroom experience. Network administrators are facing increasing pressure from federal, state, and local regulators to ensure it can meet ever growing demands.

Limitations in access to the Internet and other wide area network resources can affect an institutions ability to meet these directives. Slow speeds and unresponsive systems are sure to raise the heckles of students, teachers and parents alike (not to mention school administrators). Unfortunately, the network admin staff is the first ones blamed. But fear not, planning and the use of technology can assist in overcoming and resolving many network related problems. BYOD, PARCC and other requirements can be met along with a marked reduction in stress. You can learn more from this informative paper.

Click HERE to download the white paper