Mangoman20
Well-Known Member
We're about to commence 3 x trials offering alternatives to the conventional ADSL setup.
1. Channel Bonding - "Bonding" of 4 x 4Mb lines which in a nutshell, compresses and/or encrypts at the clients side then uncompresses and/or decrypts on the ISP side (Verizon). Cost wise close on double our existing costs (R420k p.a)
2. Lasernet - Microwave / radio link. "Specialised solution for distribution of multimedia within the broadcast, television, film and print industry". They offer a 8mb guaranteed link between their servers in CT, JHB, Durban, UK and US. Together with that they offer improved access to the internet cloud as they break out at the 100mb backbone of Verizon. Most expensive solution costing R750k p.a
3. Lastly, a load balanced solution using a Linux box and PFsense acting as the manager. So far this has proven to work well as we can then manage the bandwidth, ISP's used and routing to various ISP's for various services. Only downfall is that we remain at the mercy of ADSL. Costs R220k p.a
I would like to know if anybody else on this forum has been in such a predicament ? We need faster / better than ADSL but don't want to go the diginet route as it is too costly, ties us into a 12 month cotnract with one ISP and with the "imminent" release of Neotel and now Vodacom's offering it doesn't make sense.
Your feedback / comments would gladly be appreciated on the above trial.
I will also post results of my trials and tribulations as the process goes on.
1. Channel Bonding - "Bonding" of 4 x 4Mb lines which in a nutshell, compresses and/or encrypts at the clients side then uncompresses and/or decrypts on the ISP side (Verizon). Cost wise close on double our existing costs (R420k p.a)
2. Lasernet - Microwave / radio link. "Specialised solution for distribution of multimedia within the broadcast, television, film and print industry". They offer a 8mb guaranteed link between their servers in CT, JHB, Durban, UK and US. Together with that they offer improved access to the internet cloud as they break out at the 100mb backbone of Verizon. Most expensive solution costing R750k p.a
3. Lastly, a load balanced solution using a Linux box and PFsense acting as the manager. So far this has proven to work well as we can then manage the bandwidth, ISP's used and routing to various ISP's for various services. Only downfall is that we remain at the mercy of ADSL. Costs R220k p.a
I would like to know if anybody else on this forum has been in such a predicament ? We need faster / better than ADSL but don't want to go the diginet route as it is too costly, ties us into a 12 month cotnract with one ISP and with the "imminent" release of Neotel and now Vodacom's offering it doesn't make sense.
Your feedback / comments would gladly be appreciated on the above trial.
I will also post results of my trials and tribulations as the process goes on.
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