| Bonded ADSL is a recent addition to the broadband | | | | is a solution that fills the gap between load balanced |
| solutions available in the South African market. | | | | connections and diginet. With this solution up to 5 |
| Previously the only step up for a company, once it had | | | | separate telephone lines and bonds them together to |
| reached the limits of its broadband connection was to | | | | provide one larger "pipe" to the Internet. |
| try load balancing across several lines. | | | | Bonded ADSL is different from a load balancing |
| Load balancing means routing different network traffic | | | | solution, which simply route different type of traffic, |
| across different lines, so for example mail would be | | | | such as web or mail, over different telephone lines. |
| routed across one ADSL line while web traffic would | | | | With these solutions the maximum throughput is limited |
| be routed across another. Load balances could be | | | | to the capabilities of a single ADSL line. |
| used to extend the usefulness of a connection by | | | | A bonded ADSL solution essentially make the individual |
| dividing users web sessions across different ADSL | | | | phone lines one large pipe. So if you bond 5 lines with |
| lines, to ensure that no one line became saturated, and | | | | 4Mbps up and 512Kbps down you can get up to |
| that users did not experienced decreasing web | | | | 20Mbps down and 2Mbps up! |
| access speeds as more and more users climbed on. | | | | One of the advantages of ADSL is is cost. Its |
| Bonded ADSL is not load balancing | | | | disadvantage was its limited bandwidth, but this is no |
| Once the capabilities of load balancing had been | | | | longer the case with bonded ADSL. Now you have a |
| exhausted corporates were left with the only option of | | | | cost-effective replacement for expensive diginet or |
| buying expensive leased line or diginet. Bonded ADSL | | | | leased lines! |