Multi Homing Network Tools

Published: 07th September 2006
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Remember a few years ago when the massive blackout struck New York City and a large section of North Eastern U.S. Everything was shut down, the trains couldn't move so people slowly streamed home and could not return back to work for a few days. Traffic lights were out so it became impossible to drive anywhere, let alone pump gas into a car. Having an internet outage in today's business can have same crippling effect. Employees can not access email and messages shutting down a vital line of business related communication. Research grinds to a halt because the link to the information superhighway is severed. Inventory and databases can not be updated. Entire business can be shut down all because a single internet service provider provides lousy service.



Multi-Homing technology is hardware that will balance the traffic between two networks. Often second networks are added to both add network redundancy and increase available bandwidth. Multi-Homing technology will not only balance the traffic between to two WANs or LANs but it will also optimize the traffic inside them. To see examples of benefits of Multi-homing technology and to see how cheap it can be,

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