Jeff Wiltshire

I've just come across a new product which maybe of interest to people.

It from a company called Amplify.net (www.amplifynet.com and it allows you to either load balance or failover up to 3 WAN links. These WAN links can be ADSL, SDSL, E1 lease line or ISDN/PSTN. This means that you could load balance across 3 ADSL circuits (6Mb down, 768Kb up).

The clever bit is the use of a DNS server on the box which will respond with different IP addresses depending on the circuit that the orginating request was made on. This means you can use it for inbound as well as outbound.

It comes in a number of flavours including Statefull inspection firewall and VPN. You can have these units in a HA pair which multiple WAN links to provide truely resilent VPN concentrators/Web sites/Mail gateways etc.

Well cool


Jeff

[Edited by Jeff Wiltshire - 11/27/2002 6:57:38 AM]

mj

havent got a clue what its all about but if i did id probly get one.

sounds good though

ttt

elgordano

Sounds a bit nerdy to me. Well cool.

Gordo

Jeff Wiltshire

Sometimes I think I'm wasted on you lot

Puff The Magic Wagon!

iTrader: (2)

Sounds good...

I can think of a situation that would help me now.

I guess its going to cost though

Puff The Magic Wagon!

iTrader: (2)

It would help if the link worked

Jeff Wiltshire

Works now.....(got the name of the company wrong !!!!!!!!!!!)

Prices range from £500 for the 2 circuit no firewall/VPN box (iSurfjanus CX) to £4500 for the 3 circuit Firewall/VPN 1U Rack (iSurfJanus RX/VPN) box.


Jeff

elgordano

That's a nice little product.

Gordo

ChrisB

Sounds interesting, but what a dodgy product name.... iSurfJanus

shunty

that a good looking product Jeff.
ps - Janus being the greek name of JANET, the original UK internet then?

shunty

krankyd

You could always use Solaris


I'll get my coat...

stevencotton

Surely all you need is n+1 connections, 3 machines (or one with 3 NICS, or whatever configuration) as proxies and DNS round robin to get the same thing

Jeff Wiltshire

So who can spot the problem with Steve's idea.....think round-robin and HA and proxies.....!

Shunty

Janus

Janus {jan'-uhs}:
1. The Roman god of gates and doors (ianua)

Looking both ways....

Jeff

stevencotton

Sure it has limitations, but I can code around those

Jeff Wiltshire

You can code a VPN proxy ????? I'm impressed