Bonding simultaneously provides your office:

1. a cost-effective high speed Internet connection achieved by bonding and accelerating multiple Internet connections,
2. inbound and outbound failover without disconnecting users,
3. Quality of Service between your office and Skyway’s network operations centre, and
4. Service Level Agreement.

Bonding can help your business in several ways. Some example scenarios:

1. If you require more upload speed, but are located in an industrial park limited to 6/1 DSL, bond four services to achieve 24/4.
2. If your business relies on mission-critical applications, bonding provides uninterrupted no loss failover.
3. If you need speeds typically associated with Fibre, but can’t afford the sometimes prohibitive construction costs and monthly charges, bond four 25/5 DSL services to achieve 100/20.
4. If you require both no loss failover and provider redundancy, bond different technologies from different ISPs.

Actual speeds will vary due to overhead and the amount of latency on each connection.

Skyway supplies an Internet Bonding Router that connects to the router/modem supplied by us or by another ISP. The Aggregators have a 100 Mbps ethernet port for connection to your firewall or local area network.

The Bonding aggregator equipment at your location connects your multiple Internet connections to a Bonding Aggregation Concentrator located at Skyway’s network operation centre. The Aggregation Concentrator passes the aggegated traffic to/from the Internet or to/from locations served by Skyway.

Bonding can be enhanced to terminate IPSEC VPN connections eliminating the need for a separate firewall. Skyway manages and monitors the VPN connections.

The Bonding Aggregator also has a built in PPTP VPN server which can be configured to slave off a customer’s radius or active directory server. This allows a roaming user to connect their laptop to the office by pointing to the local aggregator without changing their PPTP login and password.

Yes, Bonding provides inbound/outbound failover. Bonding combines up to seven different Internet connections into a single connection sharing the same IP address block. If one Internet connection fails, the remaining connection(s) continue using the shared IP addresses without interrupting inbound and outbound traffic. If you have four connections, three can fail without loss of service.

No, VoIP calls or terminal connections do NOT drop when an Internet connection fails. People using VoIP will lose a moment of communication but their VoIP call will not disconnect. Those using a terminal or citrix connection might notice a short delay but they will not have to reconnect.

Bonding can be enhanced to provide bi-directional QoS between your location and the Bonding Concentrator located at Skyway’s network operation centre. Bi-directional QoS manages Internet connections from different suppliers to allow inbound and outbound QoS. We can also provide bi-directional QoS between multiple locations.

QoS increases overall performance and reliability for mission critical applications such as voice, video and data. Bonding supports Priority Queuing using IP Precedence, IPToS, DSCP and Custom Classification methods.

For example, when there is insufficient bandwidth over an outbound connection, Priority Queuing will send the packet containing the highest priority queue first and then send the next priority packets. VoIP Packets can be assigned the “High” priority

Bonding can be enhanced to compress traffic between your location and the Bonding Concentrator located at Skyway’s network operation centre. Compressing the traffic reduces the time required to transmit the data across the Bonding, permitting more data to be sent in a given time.

Bonding will compress any data that is not already compressed by the application. For example, common html pages, email and email attachments, spreadsheets, word processing documents, presentations and machine to machine data outside of a VPN are all typically compressed by Bonding. It will not compress traffic already compressed (e.g., most VoIP calls, photos, multi media files) or secured traffic it cannot identify (e.g., within a VPN).

Compression typically doubles the upload speeds of uncompressed data.

Bonding is available throughout British Columbia (BC) and Alberta (AB).

Please email sales@skywaywest.com or phone 604-482-1225 for more information