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29 May

LTE Intelligent Edge device from FatPipe now available

FatPipe Announces General Availability of Integrated LTE to its Intelligent Edge SD-WAN Devices

FatPipe technology allows for seamless failover of sessions including VoIP to LTE without dropping sessions.

MAY 22, 2019 (Salt Lake City) FatPipe Networks, the inventors and multiple patents holder of key SD-WAN technologies, announced the availability of integrated LTE as a WAN option in its intelligent edge SD-WANs. This innovation is designed to assist small branches in having a back up to their fixed line solutions. In addition, customers can also use multiple 4G/LTE connections in locations where they do not have fixed line options.

FatPipe’s SD-WAN provides automatic failover and intelligent load balancing from one line to another without dropping a session or VPN connection. This ensures that a session or a VoIP call is not dropped when a line fails and the session is carried over to another line.

“This is of great value to retail and financial institutions as they do not have to re-start a session or double charge a customer by mistake,” said Dr. Ragula Bhaskar, CEO of FatPipe, “FatPipe’s LTE option has been available to early adoption customers for a year and now we are formally announcing the general availability. FatPipe is also 5G ready.”

FatPipe’s Integration of LTE into its Intelligent Edge SD-WAN leverages three of FatPipe’s previous innovations:

FatPipe’s superior patented SD-WAN technology enables data to be placed on a single line and failed over seamlessly to a second line without dropping the session or packets vs other SD-WAN technologies that either drop the sessions and have to be re-started or have to duplicate the packets on two lines, which places undue burden on bandwidth by double bandwidth needs. Such duplication technology is especially detrimental to LTE and 4G transmissions.
FatPipe’s patented Dynamic IP addressing scheme technology, which can use dynamic (not fixed) IP addresses of LTE and aggregate the line with a fixed IP. This reduces monthly costs, especially for LTE cards.
FatPipe WAN Optimization reduces the amount of data transmitted by 40% to 90%, further reducing LTE costs.

FatPipe’s SD-WAN solutions simplify multi-vendor interoperability and include key features that transcend WAN failures to maintain business continuity, including zero-touch branch deployment, hybrid WAN connectivity, tuned application performance, easy integration, granular network visibility, multi-path security, secure full mesh VPN connectivity and flexible centralized policy deployments.

“FatPipe’s intelligent edge with 4G directly addresses market demand in our customer base,” said Dante Passalacqua, “FatPipe’s unparalleled SD-WAN with an integrated modem further simplifies the ease of deployment and creates a cost-effective solution for our customers, especially in retail. We are pleased that FatPipe is very responsive to market needs; FatPipe makes it easy for us to offer our customers the best in class solutions.”

About FatPipe Networks

FatPipe Networks invented the concept of software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) and hybrid WANs that eliminate the need for hardware and software, or cooperation from ISPs and allows companies and service providers to control multi-link network traffic. FatPipe currently has 11 U.S. patents and more than 180 technology claims related to multipath, software-defined networking and selective encryption of broadband networks. FatPipe technology provides the world’s best intra-corporate wide area network solutions that transcend Internet and other network failures to maintain business continuity and high transmission security. FatPipe, with several thousand customers, has offices in the United States and around the world, and more than 700 resellers worldwide including almost all national resellers in the US. For more information, visit www.fatpipe.com.

19 Apr

FatPipe at Channel Partners 2019

I find most modern day IT conferences pretty much the same. Arrive, set up the booth, meet and greet, wine and dine and listen to presentations, some inspiring, some not so much. But, with so many attendees, it is important to be seen, be present and tell your targeted audience exactly what you can do for them with your solutions.

Channel Partners Expo in Las Vegas April 9-12 this year was a show to remember for several reasons. It was well attended, it had a lot of products for resellers to look at and above all, it was warm outside and that in of itself was comforting coming from a cold and snowy Salt Lake City Utah.

FatPipe Networks had steady traffic to the booth, with a large amount of interest in our current technologies. Some patrons knew about FatPipe networks and were pleasantly surprised at how our SD-WAN solutions have evolved and developed. FatPipe is known for being the first to market with networking solutions that helped shaped what SD-WAN is today, and the veterans in the reseller industry were cognizant of how FatPipe leads the industry with the concept of load balancing, redundancy and failover.

Today, however, the SD-WAN market has changed and FatPipe has too. The demand for the digital transformation which includes cloud based applications, IoT, AI, mobility, and secure management of data across the network is increasing dramatically. There is still reluctance to fully embrace SD-WAN technologies perhaps because of the legacy systems still in place, which are expensive to maintain and difficult to change. However, it is now well known that with SD-WAN, companies can take advantage of less costly connections, including the internet, but are wary of security. In fact, several recent surveys have identified security as the number 1 issue for network administrators, but what might not be apparent is that it is the talent to implement and manage SD-WAN that ranks a close number 2.

FatPipe’s highly secure, easy to manage SD-WAN solutions are once again leading the industry

It was really encouraging to talk to resellers of all shapes and sizes at Channel Partners this year and explain how FatPipe is once again leading the SD-WAN charge with solutions that meet both these, and many more, key concerns of network administrators. FatPipe’s latest software release has a patented security module that is FIPS 140-2 certified, making FatPipe a leader in secure data transmission across the WAN.

The concern about implementing SD-WAN solutions with unqualified IT staff is an interesting factoid that can be successfully addressed with FatPipe’s Enterprise View. A single pane view of the network allows FatPipe users a very simple and easy methodology to change settings, apply prioritization to application access, set automatic failover thresholds based on user defined criteria and manage the WAN traffic easily and effectively. And all this requires basic IT skills, no propriety certifications, retraining or refresh. In fact, FatPipe has installations at thousands of institutions across the globe where the skills of IT personnel varies from highly certified to very basic, and each site manages their network traffic using this easy to use tool from FatPipe.

FatPipe has developed solutions for the modern day SD-WAN environments with a suite of SD-WAN products that are secure, very easy to use and have the very best ROI in the industry.

Channel Partners was enlightening and exhausting, but at the end of the day, it was great to see old friends and meet new people, share ideas and above all, let all know that FatPipe is once again leading the SD-WAN market with innovative, industry leading solutions.

24 Jan

Thoughts after Avaya Engage 2019

FatPipe Networks Avaya Engage 2019

I just returned from Avaya Engage 2019 in Austin where FatPipe sponsored a booth in the solutions expo. It is always a pleasure to attend these events and hear first-hand what customers are looking for in the solutions expo. One theme we kept hearing was regarding cloud-hosted or cloud-ready UC and CC, and specifically, how do you ensure network performance when you move to the cloud.

Ensuring WAN performance for UC/CC is something FatPipe does well. During the conference Avaya discussed their AIX-Mobility solution, (Avaya Mobile Experience) FatPipe is providing one of the foundational technologies for this product. Customers of AIX-Mobility connect to the Avaya Cloud via FatPipe’s SD-WAN technology. This allows for rapid and cost-effective deployment of the service because there is no one to provision dedicated MPLS circuit to call center locations, the connection to the Avaya cloud can be made over an internet connection, dedicated MPLS circuits, or a hybrid combination of connections. FatPipe’s SD-WAN monitors the quality of the paths and intelligently directs the calls to the most appropriate path.

One of the reasons why Avaya chose FatPipe over other SD-WAN providers is FatPipe’s unique ability to do stateful, sub-second call failover without having to duplicate packets. There are also several other techniques that FatPipe uses to ensure the highest call quality and low bandwidth use. For example, the packet duplication requirement that other SD-WAN providers put on stateful failover was seen as a large burden on Avaya’s network plans. Having to double-provision bandwidth does not work on the scale AIX-Mobility is designed for.

FatPipe’s efficient means of VoIP management works both at the carrier level, like Avaya, and for enterprises. To learn more about FatPipe’s SD-WAN for VoIP click here