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BROADBAND BONDING SERVICE
Broadband Bonding as a Managed Service
Mushroom Networks customer premises equipment (CPE) devices like Truffle and Portabella use session-based load balancing in standalone mode. Separate sessions are distributed across WAN links, while each session uses one link. The Broadband Bonding Service (BBS) provides application-centric overlay tunnels that peer the CPE to Mushroom Relay Servers in the cloud. This peered mode enables packet-level bonding for applications including video, VoIP, uploads and file transfers. With BBS, packets from a single session can be distributed across multiple links and reassembled at the relay. A customer-hosted relay is another option for peered bonding.
Self-Hosted Broadband Bonding (Virtual Leased Line)
BENEFITS OF BROADBAND BONDING SOLUTIONS
Downlink and Uplink Bonding
When used with the Broadband Bonding Service (BBS) or peered to another Truffle/Portabella device, these load-balancing routers can bond internet access lines for all types of traffic, including encrypted VPN traffic, providing aggregated downlink and uplink speed and capacity.
Application Armor with Session Keep Alive
Mushroom Networks devices continuously monitor network conditions and intelligently react in real-time to mitigate performance degradation caused by WAN issues. Managed parameters include packet loss, latency, jitter, cross-traffic, buffer bloat, MTU problems, black holes, and more. If any WAN link at a branch office experiences issues like packet loss or latency spikes, the bonding tunnel maintains ongoing IP sessions without performance loss by shielding the negative effects and re-routing traffic.
Networks on Autopilot for High Reliability
In case of internet access line issues, Truffle/Portabella can keep active sessions alive by making real-time per-packet routing decisions, even for in-progress sessions. Automatic failover also protects against one or more WAN link failures.
Advanced QoS for Application Optimization
The application-centric bonding tunnels can optimize traffic flows for various applications. For example, they can route VoIP/SIP call packets around network issues to maintain optimal call quality (MOS score).
Elastic Static IP
HOW MUSHROOM NETWORKS BONDING SOLUTIONS WORK
Peering
Truffle and Portabella devices can peer with a Mushroom Relay device through the Broadband Bonding Service (BBS) or another physical/virtual Truffle appliance hosted in the data center. Between the two endpoints, a VPN-like overlay tunnel is created to orchestrate the multi-WAN paths. For connectivity between multiple offices, star or mesh topologies are supported.
Application-Optimized Algorithms
The bonding tunnels between Mushroom endpoints implement advanced networking algorithms to optimize traffic flows. Various application-centric overlay tunnels are optimized for VoIP, video, unified communications, chatty applications, cloud services, file transfers, and other application types.
Real-Time Measurements
The algorithms powering the Virtual Leased Line (VLL) tunnels rely on the system’s ability to measure real-time parameters like packet loss, latency, jitter, and recent network history metrics using in-band and out-of-band techniques.
Third-Party Monitoring Support
Third-party monitoring solutions are supported via SNMP, Syslog, Netflow, and other standard APIs.
Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Architecture
Mushroom Networks solutions are built on an award-winning, industry-leading SD-WAN architecture. The software-defined approach enables easy development, deployment, and management of bonding tunnels and customer premises equipment (CPE) devices. A single-pane-of-glass dashboard provides visibility and remote access to CPEs from a cloud-based portal, supporting zero-touch preconfiguration and rapid deployment.
Implementation Options
The relay side of the peering tunnel can be implemented using a Truffle physical appliance, a virtual Truffle V running on VMware/Xen hypervisors, or the Mushroom Networks-hosted BBS service in Mushroom data centers or on AWS EC2.
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Analyst Coverage
Quadrant Knowledge Solutions
Quadrant recognized Mushroom Networks with its annual SD-WAN Company of the Year award, highlighting the sophistication of its Broadband Bonding technology and VNF Design Studio.
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Mushroom Networks’ company announcement reports the recognition and includes the analyst’s comments.
Frost & Sullivan analyst coverage
In Light Reading’s reporting, analyst Roopa Honnachari described VNF Design Studio’s interface as “truly unique”, highlighting how service providers can design services for different application requirements.
View original analyst coverage
Carol Wilson, Light Reading. The comments concern VNF Design Studio and Mushroom Networks’ service-provider approach.
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Truffle Models
Truffle V
Truffle Models
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| Feature | Truffle Lite | Truffle | Truffle E | Truffle EX |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Load balancing | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Ethernet / SFP WAN ports | 2–4 Ethernet | 4 Ethernet | 8–16 Ethernet / SFP | 2 × 10 Gb/s SFP, 10 Ethernet |
| Firewall / router | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| VNF tunnels | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Passthrough | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Fail-to-wire | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| Traffic shaping | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Relay server | Optional | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| Load balancing throughput | Up to 1 Gb/s | Up to 1 Gb/s | Up to 1 Gb/s | Up to 10 Gb/s |
| Peered bonding throughput | 50 Mb/s | 250 Mb/s | 800 Mb/s | 800 Mb/s |
| Suitable for | Home office | Small office | Mid office | Large office |
| Brochure | View brochure | View brochure | View brochure | View brochure |
Peered bonding requires a cloud or customer-hosted relay. See Broadband Bonding Service for relay options.
Truffle V
TESTIMONIALS & AWARDS
“Just drop the Truffle into your network and experience what it is like to have a large bandwidth pipe at a fraction of the cost. The Truffle is highly reliable, scalable and easy to use.”
KARL VAN GILLS
Vice President of IT
Pacific Capital Group
“This is hands down the best hardware investment I have made. The Truffle has been a real life saver.”
Michael Durdin
Technology Coordinator
East Wake Academy
“I have to say, these devices [Broadband Bonding devices] are pretty incredible. These things really are as easy to understand and configure as you described. I’m very impressed.”
Dorian DeLuca
IT Manager
Michael Brady
Clients include:
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS aBOUT BROADBAND BONDING SERVICE
Standalone mode uses session-based load balancing. Separate sessions are distributed across the available WAN links, and each session uses one link. Packet-level bonding, including combining multiple links for a single session, requires peering with Mushroom Networks' Cloud Relay Service or a customer-hosted relay.
Depending on your traffic type, various tunnels are available:
- Video Armor tunnel for live video streaming applications
- VoIP Armor tunnel for real-time applications
- App Armor tunnels for generic internet applications
These tunnels work alongside the flagship broadband bonding tunnel and are compatible across Mushroom Networks devices.
BBS has a low, fixed monthly service fee rather than a variable usage-based service charge. The BBS fee does not increase with the amount of data carried. Carrier, hosting and selected option charges remain separate.
Absolutely. You can schedule a live demo of the broadband bonding technology by contacting us via the “Contact Sales” button below.
Yes, you can find our customer case-studies here.
Yes, you can combine different types of internet access lines from any ISP using the Broadband Bonding Service.
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Tell us which connections and applications you want to support, how many sites you have, and whether you already have an encoder or relay. We’ll help confirm the model and any services needed.
BBS has a low, fixed monthly service fee. Carrier, hosting and selected option charges are separate. A live-video configuration may require a video relay service. We’ll explain the relevant options when preparing your quote.