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21 Feb

Microsoft customers to benefit from SD-WAN for Azure

SD-WAN for Azure addresses connectivity issues for users of Microsoft Cloud based real time applications, such as Office 365.

FatPipe’s SD-WAN for Azure, an SD-WAN virtual machine enables Microsoft customers who use Office 365 and other cloud based applications by overcoming the need to reconnect every so often when the sessions break. This is especially important for customers and offices where large groups have to use Office 365 or other cloud-hosted applications, or when a single line connection to Azure is not adequate to address line drop issues.

Using FatPipe’s patented MPSec technology, multinational corporations, embassies and government agencies can use cloud-hosted applications knowing that their traffic is transmitted securely using FatPipe’s cryptographic module, FIPS 140-2, certified by NIST.

Delays and interruptions are reduced with FatPipe’s built in WAN optimization, reducing bandwidth needs and using FatPipe’s QoS gives priority to real time applications.

FatPipe for Azure provides real time Azure cloud offerings including Office 365, AI, Business Intelligence, Azure stream Analytics and Event Hubs where thousands of telemetry data have to be sent to the Azure Cloud. Using FatPipe for Azure, VoIP, video, data and VPN sessions are not dropped, but simply failover to other available lines.

A Global logistics company was looking to migrate real-time applications to Azure and improve performance for their Office 365 users. Using FatPipe’s SD-WAN for Azure, they made this migration securely and easily. “We have been a FatPipe partner for several years, providing connectivity for our customers. We are excited to deploy FatPipe SD-WAN in Azure as we execute on our cloud strategies with our customers” said Aneil Raghunanan, IT Project Manager.

FatPipe for Azure can be downloaded from the Azure marketplace: https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/apps/fatpipe-inc.mpvpn-azr?tab=PlansAndPrice

More information on FatPipe for Azure can be found at: https://www.fatpipeinc.com/products/symphony-sd-wan/fatpipe-sd-wan-for-azure.php

06 Feb

Employees sent home due to carrier line outage

Recently a nationwide CenturyLink outage knocked out 911 voice calls, ATM withdrawals, and hospital patient records. Locally in Salt Lake City, a manufacturing business had to send their employees home costing tens of thousands of dollars in lost business.

Additionally, a major bank could not conduct business as usual as they could not access data or applications located in the Cloud or reach their branches. This is not an “unusual” occurrence. Line Outages are more common with the massive demand on carriers to provide more bandwidth and access to applications and data stored in cloud based centers across the country. Of course, if these businesses had multi-line secure, sub second failover technology installed, none of these disruptions would have occurred. FatPipe’s patented technology has proven itself time and again, most recently with a Chicago based town council, when bad weather caused their primary network to suffer an outage. With FatPipe’s solution, employees did not see any disruption whatsoever, unaware of the major outage. The council called FatPipe, not to register a support call, but to thank FatPipe for their solution that worked flawlessly. Modern networks are more crucial than ever before, especially for mission critical information such as that found in healthcare, financial and local government institutions. FatPipe pioneered technology to keep networks up using any link type, including LTE, 3G,4G,5G, fiber, leased, satellite, DSL, cable, wireless, and Internet.

21 Jan

FatPipe Deploys Avaya IX Mobility

Avaya

FatPipe Networks is an Avaya partner for over 3 years and a NEW Avaya IX Mobility end user. We wanted to provide better customer experience and digitally transform our contact center. We chose to implement Avaya IX Mobility in combination with our secure SD-WAN for Customer Support 800 service, offering self-service choices for smartphone users. In a joint press release, FatPipe announced at Avaya ENGAGE we have deployed Avaya’s IX Mobility solution to digitally transform our contact center. “Avaya IX Mobility has been a great investment for FatPipe to help improve experiences with our customers as we grow and expand,” said Sanchaita Datta, Chief Technical Officer, FatPipe Networks. “Customers can now provide more information on issues using the mobile web applications we have written and deployed. Our customers have enjoyed having these options to expedite their support requests. Avaya IX Mobility has been a cost-effective way for us to provide a better customer experience.”

Link to press release: https://www.marketwatch.com/press-release/fatpipe-and-acs-technologies-digitally-transform-their-contact-centers-with-avaya-ix-mobility-2019-01-21

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.

14 Aug

Internet Routing Storm

Today was a slow day for many internet users. Thanks to the failure of several core BGP routers, Internet traffic was spotty. The reason for this is there were several problems with major ISPs and their routers. Their routers, many of which can hold only 512,000 BGP routing tables, were overloaded and could not handle more routing rules. BGP is the protocol used to track and share routes for sending data traffic. Level 3 was affected in a major way. Those who use VoIP saw a significant degradation in the quality of their VoIP traffic. VoIP is sensitive to jitter and latency; today was the day when all the problems you can think of came to a head.

Those customers who used FatPipe products and had multiple ISP providers did not suffer as much. Using FatPipe SmartDNS on their premise allowed them to escaped the DNS meltdown that occurred at some ISP and backbone service providers. When the core routers were not transmitting the traffic, FatPipe appliances were able to send the traffic to the right place. VoIP traffic was better handled as FatPipe managed the latency and jitter to route traffic in the best possible manner.