Businesses in the oil and energy sector are forced to work in challenging environments. Temporary offices, remote drilling sites, time-critical deployments and other similar quick-install scenarios limit the available options for Internet connectivity. In many cases, wired, high quality lines may not be available, or may suffer from too long deployment lead times (in some cases up to three months or more).

For years, oil and energy companies have solely relied on expensive VSAT (very small aperture terminals) satellite communications for providing Internet connectivity for their remote drilling sites. Typically, these sites are far from reliable, high-quality wired broadband Internet, and there were no other options available, despite the high cost of satellite links. Today, SD-WAN with broadband bonding offers a very attractive and cost-effective solution. Any of the on-site Internet resources, including 4G/LTE/5G wireless, cellular data connections, as well as satellite, can be teamed together to create combined bandwidth. In some cases, if wired Internet resources are available but not up-to-par in terms of performance and reliability, Broadband Bonding devices can combine two or more of the Internet connections to provide fast and reliable Internet that is otherwise not available.

Truffle devices are equipped with Ethernet ports and with additional 3G/4G/LTE/5G interfaces. For a solely 3G/4G/LTE/5G aggregation device, Portabella is ideal. These devices allow for rapid rollout and deployment to any locations, with the enterprise-grade security and scalability the industry requires.