How It Works

The Secret to High Speed Internet Access

Traffic Bonding

Your bonded traffic is controlled at two locations: (1) the Bonded Internet appliance connected to your firewall, and (2) one of our servers in a datacenter with a high-speed connection to the Internet, called an aggregation server or just aggregator. Traffic bound for your local network first passes through the aggregator, where the data stream is divided, each packet routed independently through one of your individual Internet connections. When the packets reach your appliance, they are recombined into the original data stream and forwarded to your network. Traffic from your network takes the opposite path: the bonding appliance divides the traffic among your connections and it is joined at the aggregator before being sent to the destination host on the Internet.

Traffic must flow through the aggregation server because all the packets in a flow (for example, a view of a single web page) must have the same source IP address. If, for example, the first packet in a flow was to come from one of your individual lines, and the second packet in the flow from a different line, the destination host would consider each packet to be part of different flows and your connection would fail. Since our solution combines your traffic at the aggregator, the destination host sees a single source IP address for each packet in the flow.

Device Management

Your device is connected to a special server that remotely controls its configuration. Our technicians use a private web-based application to manage your Internet connections, IP addresses, and other options. You never need to update configuration files on the device, because we manage everything for you.