Bonded Broadband

The OIS Internet Bonding solution involves having multiple broadband lines installed at your premises and using specialist OIS bonding equipment to link them together. The bonding equipment splits the Internet data up at a packet level, then sends it across all of your available broadband lines. The data is then put back together again using the core OIS bonding equipment within the PEN. The data is then sent to the Internet. This process occurs for both uploading and downloading Internet data.

A number of providers advertise Internet bonding but are actually providing Internet load balancing. As shown in the load balancing diagram each user is only able to utilise the bandwidth of a single line. Our true bonding solution gives you the combined bandwidth from all of the lines.

With load balancing, your broadband lines are connected to a special router that intelligently switches connection to an additional line when the bandwidth from a primary line is exceeded.

It sounds impressive, and perhaps technically it is, but one has to consider that load balancing still only utilises the same bandwidth available from a single line for each connection and as such there is no combined bandwidth.

With the Internet now taking leaps and bounds toward a far higher degree of interactive content with the addition of extra services like voice and video communications the combined bandwidth of a bonded connection has become a real alternative to the much higher cost leased lines that were once required. Additionally, in a rural setting where typical broadband speeds are much lower, bonding combines multiple slower lines into one fast connection.