WAN Bandwidth and Internet Optimization

Plum Care ensures tools are available to get the internet speeds you need for your applications. The WAN Bandwidth and Internet Optimization Service helps customers maximize the performance, reliability, and efficiency of their available network connections. The service evaluates how cellular, satellite, and other WAN connections are being utilized and optimizes the Plum Case to make the best use of available bandwidth.

What is WAN?

In true definition, a wide-area network (WAN) is a collection of local-area networks (LANs) or other networks that communicate with one another. A WAN is essentially a network of networks, with the Internet the world’s largest WAN. In its simplest form, a WAN can be viewed as a “path” or “vessel” to the internet at large.

WAN/Bandwidth Optimization Service provides a review and real-time configuration of the Plum Case’s available WAN connections to ensure traffic is intelligently managed across the network and the best internet speeds are delivered for your specific application.

Plum evaluates factors such as available bandwidth, connection quality, latency, cellular performance, WAN priorities, SD-WAN tools, failover configuration, and application needs to help determine the most effective way to utilize available connectivity.

Why It Matters

Effective WAN management is critical when operating in environments where bandwidth may be limited, variable, or dependent on multiple connectivity sources.

Maximize Available Bandwidth

Optimization helps ensure available cellular, satellite, and other WAN resources are used efficiently. Proper configuration can help improve throughput and prevent available bandwidth from being unnecessarily underutilized.

Improve Network Performance

WAN optimization considers factors such as latency, signal quality, packet loss, and connection stability to help direct traffic through the most appropriate available connection.

Intelligent Failover

When multiple WAN connections are available, the Plum Case can be configured to prioritize connections and automatically transition between them when network conditions change. This helps maintain connectivity when a primary connection becomes unavailable or degraded.

Intelligent Connection Management

Intelligently bonded links or intelligent automated algorithmic failover are available to bring multiple WAN links online and pass traffic over them simultaneously. This creates a larger, more robust internet pipe to send critical traffic over when the bandwidth from a single WAN is not enough or fails over time.

Application & Traffic Management

Different applications have different network requirements. WAN optimization can help prioritize critical traffic and manage bandwidth utilization to support mission-critical applications while preventing lower-priority traffic from consuming available resources.

Operational Reliability

Optimized WAN configurations provide greater consistency across deployments and help reduce the impact of changing cellular and satellite conditions. This can improve uptime and reduce the need for manual intervention when connectivity conditions change.

Best Practice

Plum recommends reviewing WAN and bandwidth configuration during initial deployment and whenever network requirements, connectivity providers, or operating environments change or become unreliable. Proper WAN optimization helps customers maximize available bandwidth, improve reliability, and maintain the best possible network performance in the field even during the most challenging deployments.

Get more from your connections

Whether you are working with cellular, satellite, or multiple WAN links, we can help you prioritize traffic, set up failover, and get the network performance your applications need. Share a few details, and we will follow up.

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