SD-WAN explained
Fusion Broadband SD-WAN offers superior performance and more control of your Private Network
Fusion Broadband’s SD-WAN is the ultimate multi-site connectivity solution delivering a superior 100% carrier independent SD-WAN solution. With global PoPs, your remote sites, no matter where they are, can be seamlessly integrated. No other SD-WAN provider is able to offer you the performance, flexibility and routing control. In fact more MSPs in Australia build their SD-WAN solutions on our platform than any other SD-WAN provider.
Using our proprietary software and proven link aggregation, our QoS control technology coupled with our node management and routing engines, Fusion SD-WAN allows you to build the ultimate Private Network for your business regardless if it’s 2 or 2000 sites. Setting up a Fusion SD-WAN is simple! In fact, our equipment can be delivered fully provisioned and ready to go out of the box.
We provide fully customisable, bi-directional QoS between sites and to the Internet and multiple levels of packet encryption.
Your Fusion SD-WAN is managed from your SD-WAN Admin Portal where you have centralised control of each site, global port forwards and Internet gateways.
Why Fusion SD-WAN?
Fusion is the first and original SD-WAN provider in Australia, deploying services in Australia since 2014. We are 100% carrier agnostic, allowing you to pick the best technology from the best carrier (or multiple carriers) regardless of the location or technology; ADSL, NBN, 3/4G, even satellite! You are not bound to Australia either! With over 12 PoPs in international locations, we are sure to be near your remote business sites for low latency, high speed access.
TOTAL CONTROL
The Fusion SD-WAN portal allows you to quickly see your entire network and the status of each link and gives you the ability to zoom in to each site and adjust settings on a per-site or per-link basis.
RELIABILITY AND STABILITY
Fusion SD-WAN offers one of the fastest levels of failover of packets from failed connections.
FUSION SMARTS!
Fusion’s SD-WAN AI link management constantly monitors your links.
GATEWAY OPTIONS GALORE!
With Fusion SD-WAN, you have the option (that can be changed at any time) to have a number of different Internet access gateways
ADD SPEED TO YOUR SD-WAN
Why limit yourself to a single carrier? Use bonding to aggregate the speed of multiple services of any type from any carrier anywhere on your SD-WAN.
Fusion proprietary bonding technology in its 6th generation ensures maximised throughput, even from links with diverse speed and latency. You can even select different speeds accessed from your links, e.g. take a slower ADSL and marry that with the just the uplink capacity of a 4G connection to create a super-fast symmetrical link while saving on data costs.
With our advanced bonding algorithms, we can maximise speed even in troublesome sites/locations.
ADVANCED ROUTING
Fusion SD-WAN gives you advanced control over your network.
SUPER-FAST DEPLOYMENT
SD-WAN nodes can be activated on site OR at a central location and sent to your remote location.
PERFORMANCE OPTIMISATION
Fusion Compression and TCP Acceleration processes create an even faster and more stable link even when there’ congestion on your line(s).
INTERNATIONAL ACCESS POINTS
Fusion has over 12 pops around the globe
ADVANCED SECURITY OPTIONS
Fusion SD-WAN gives you incredible security with packet level encryption from source to destination and back.
THE ULTIMATE IN FLEXIBILITY
Even for customers with the most critical security options, Fusion Broadband gives you the ability to terminate your SD-WAN in your own data-centre or network where your packets will never even touch our network!
TOTAL CONTROL
THE SD-WAN PORTAL GIVES YOU THE PERFECT VIEW
The Fusion SD-WAN portal allows you to quickly see your entire network and the status of each link and gives you the ability to zoom in to each site and adjust settings on a per-site or per-link basis.
You can also globally adjust all local and global routing and port forwarding rules across your whole network quickly and instantly, as well as being able to instantly change gateways, inbound port forwards, 1:1 NAT routes and more. It’s all at your fingertips…from anywhere in the world! We support multiple sub-nets, routes, Vlans and more…just ask!
RELIABILITY AND STABILITY
DYNAMIC PACKET MANAGEMENT AND FAILOVER
Fusion SD-WAN offers one of the fastest levels of failover of packets from failed connections. If your site access is of the highest priority, link redundancy is key…but…you need to ensure that should a line failure occur, it is unnoticed by all your applications no matter how sensitive they are.
As a standard we route packets off failed links in under 300ms and faster if required. This will all be completely undetectable by all your applications.
In addition, not all your broadband connections will perform the best all the time. Our intelligent link performance management tool monitors your links latency, packet loss and stability and dynamically adjusts the load on each link to maintain consistent low latency performance to ensure application performance.
FUSION SMARTS!
INTELLIGENT LINK PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
Unfortunately, not all broadband connections perform their best all the time.
Fusion’s SD-WAN AI link management constantly monitors your links for latency spikes or increases as well as bi-directional packet loss.
We then automatically manage the load we put on the link to ensure that latency is kept as low as possible to keep your online applications as responsive as possible.
GATEWAY OPTIONS GALORE!
FUSION SD-WAN GIVES YOU MULTIPLE GATEWAY OPTIONS.
With Fusion SD-WAN, you have the option (that can be changed at any time) to have a number of different Internet access gateways:
- Centralised, at a particular site;
- Multiple sites
- You can even have your Fusion SD-WAN co-exist with your existing MPLS network and use that as its Internet gateway (or not!).
The choice is yours as it’s your network.
ADVANCED ROUTING
FUSION SD-WAN GIVES YOU OPTIONS AND CONTROL
Fusion SD-WAN gives you advanced control over your network with the ability to have VLANs configured on site, multiple subnets, DHCP servers with advanced options, TFTP server options in addition to routed blocks.
No other solution is able to give you such advanced network functionality.
SUPER-FAST DEPLOYMENT
ROLL OUT YOUR SD-WAN WITH NO DELAY
Zero touch deployment. SD-WAN nodes can be activated on site OR at a central location and sent to your remote location where the only effort required is plugging it in! Growing your network could not be easier or faster.
PERFORMANCE OPTIMISATION
DATA COMPRESSION AND TCP ACCELERATION
Fusion SD-WAN nodes all have two critical performance enhancing features:
One is Compression, where we can compress all compressible data running through the Node – either direction and to/from any destination – locally in your SD-WAN network or any location outside of your SD-WAN network.
The second is our TCP acceleration process which can extract optimal performance from links even on congested services, this process can greatly enhance the accessible bandwidth from heavily loaded shared services.
INTERNATIONAL ACCESS POINTS
FUSION HAS OVER 12 POPS AROUND THE GLOBE
We have SD-WAN PoPs through Asia, North America and Europe. We can even work with your preferred carrier or MSP to assist them in provisioning a shared or dedicated PoP on your behalf!
ADVANCED SECURITY OPTIONS
MULTI-LEVEL SECURITY FOR YOU TO CHOOSE FROM
Fusion SD-WAN gives you incredible security with packet level encryption from source to destination and back, but we don’t stop there!
We allow you to select various security options, these include HMAC Authentication, Encryption AES 128, AES 256 and SALSA20 ciphers all with customisable handshake intervals from every 60 seconds upwards.
With in-transit data theft being so high this gives you the highest level of data protection and security.
FLEXIBILITY
CHOICE, CHOICE AND CHOICE!
Even for customers with the most critical security options, Fusion Broadband gives you the ability to terminate your SD-WAN in your own data-centre or network where your packets will never even touch our network!
The choice is yours!
SD-WAN Control Centre
Take control of your Private Network back with your own SD-WAN portal.
The SD-WAN Admin Portal allows you to monitor the status of the SD-WAN node you will have on each site in your Private Network.
Watch a Video on our SD-WAN Client Portal:
cSD-WAN Node Devices in your network
When first entering the Admin Portal, you will be able to see a list of all the Nodes in your SD-WAN. It will show you the status of the services connected at each Node and allow access to the settings each of the Nodes by clicking the Details button.
SD-WAN Node Details
The SD-WAN Node admin section will allow you to view your connection, set alerts for line failures and run Speed tests if required.
Port/Routing Control
The Port/Routing Control section is where you setup your Port Forwards.
SD-WAN FAQs
Is Fusion SD-WAN really just an SD-WAN?
Yes! Our SD-WAN solution has been called Fusion SD-WAN.
Do I need a router?
No. The Fusion Node can replace your router as it can manage all your Port Forwards and DHCP. You are able to retain your router if you so desire.
If I already use Fusion for Bonding, can I convert to a SD-WAN?
Yes, all bonders can be used as a SD-WAN node and integrated into a Fusion SD-WAN…very quickly.
Am I able to select the internal IP subnets for each of my sites?
Yes.
Am I able to define the DNS servers in my sites (i.e. have an internal DNS server)?
Yes.
Am I able to add additional broadband services to a site to increase the speed after a site has been provisioned?
Yes. Adding an additional line is easy. This can be done by upgrading your Node through the Admin Portal with zero downtime.
How are Port Forwards managed without a router?
Port forwards are assigned via your Fusion SD-WAN Admin Portal. Any port forward changes take effect immediately. Port forwarding happens at the cloud level not at the premises like older style networks.
Why is Fusion SD-WAN better than an IPsec VPN connection?
No technical expertise required to setup, install and maintain the solution. No additional VPN equipment required. Fusion’s SD-WAN is permanently on, unlike a VPN which has to establish a connection. No VPN bandwidth overhead to worry about. Fusion SD-WAN gives you QoS and Compression boosts over the SD-WAN which cannot be done with a traditional VPN. A Fusion SD-WAN will always outperform a competing VPN solution.
What happens to a line that suffers Packet Loss?
Our systems have enhanced technology safeguards to minimise the effects of Internet disruptors such as Packet Loss. When packet loss occurs, the system has the ability to automatically adjust the line profile to reduce packet loss and return the link to its original profile once packet loss subsides. Failing that, the link will be removed from the bond if its packet loss is too severe to maintain the integrity and reliability of the network. Alerts can be sent if this occurs.
How does failover work?
Our Nodes monitor the connected legs at all times. Should a leg stop working for any reason, the system will switch to the failover device (often a 4G device). This switch occurs within 300ms. There will be no interruption to the service and current VoIP calls will not drop.
Do I need to aggregate multiple services?
No. You can use the SD-WAN Node with a single broadband service if you desire. But if you need to increase the speed of your connection, you can use Fusion Bonding to aggregate multiple services.
What kind of connections can be aggregated?
Fusion can bond any type of service from any carrier (including satellite in some rare instances). You can also bond multiple services from different carriers to build in some redundancy.
How quickly does a Port Forward entry or amendment come into affect?
Instantly! Some carrier based Private Network providers will require a request from you which can take some time to come into effect. With Fusion SD-WAN, once you add the Port Forward through your own admin portal, it is adopted instantly!
Can a Fusion SD-WAN be integrated into an existing MPLS network?
Of course! We can replace or co-exist with an MPLS network. In fact, you can run multiple Private WANs within one organisation, all terminating and converging at one site.
What is Fusion QoS?
With each Fusion SD-WAN or even with each Fusion Bonder, you get to choose how important your traffic is.
You may want certain traffic within your network to come before other traffic types.
For example, your internal RDP or terminal server applications will require priority over general web traffic, email and software downloads. Your hosted CRM application will need to be treated above general web traffic. VoIP calls will need priority over everything.
With Fusion QoS you can do this. Fully customisable inbound and outbound QoS built around your requirements, not a generalisation from a carrier. It’s your network – why not control it!
SD-WAN Pricing
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