By Topher Lautner
Whether the need is to keep a remote worker online, ensure a retail store’s credit card transactions run smoothly, or provide a connection failsafe for a commercial building, cellular failover is fast becoming a requirement for networks that can’t compromise on connectivity. Peplink’s SD-WAN solutions provide the perfect combination of cellular failover, management insight, and proactive reporting to minimize unexpected expenses, all while while keeping you connected.
Here are three key benefits of Peplink’s SpeedFusion-powered cellular failover technology.
Benefit 1: Real-time Notifications
Peplink’s cloud-based device management platform, InControl2, allows network administrators to easily track when sites fail over to cellular connections. It can also help track data usage over those cellular connections. Notifications can be set up to be sent to anyone, from a site manager or IT managed services provider to the head of an IT department monitoring expenses. These notifications can be sent for a myriad of events, such as WAN connections coming up or going down, devices going offline completely, the removal of SIM cards, data use reaching thresholds or limits, and more.
Learn about the types of SD-WAN connections.
Benefit 2: SIM Card Report
Peplink’s SIM Card Reports can provide notifications based on cellular data usage to help you make proactive decisions regarding data plans and the costs that can result from overages. To take it even further, SIM Card Reports also allow for SIMs to be pooled, so that groups of SIMs using a single pool of data can be monitored both as a whole and individually. It’s simple to know which SIMs may be using more or less data than expected, as well as where the group’s overall data usage stands. All this means that an IT administrator who needs to know when a group of SIMs reaches 50% and 75% of their data plan usage avoid surprise overage charges can do so. They can even automate notifications for managers at each site when that site’s SIM usage reaches 90% of planned usage.
InControl2 allows users to check in on these SIM card reports at any point, and to access the routers all in one spot. Users can be granted access to these reports and routers based on groupings created within the InControl2 platform. This makes it easy for large companies to categorize and group devices while allowing access only for those who need it, maintaining security to the routers. Remote access to the routers over the cellular connection using InControl2 also makes it possible to make changes and investigate the reason for WAN failures remotely, saving travel time and expenses for remote sites.
Watch a walkthrough of the SIM Card Report
Benefit 3: Predefined Failover
Peplink routers can be configured so that only specific traffic fails over to cellular connections. For instance, a retail store could choose to allow traffic like VoIP, credit card processing, and security cameras to fail over to the cellular connection if the wired WAN fails, but other traffic like guest Wi-Fi and general internet browsing does not fail over, saving valuable throughput for mission-critical traffic.
The combination of reporting, ease of access, and automatic failover makes Peplink SD-WAN routers the perfect choice for anyone who requires a constant internet connection. From small home offices to large enterprise deployments, Peplink has your solution for staying connected anytime, anywhere.
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