Cellular Connection Bonding: Multipath Cellular Aggregation Secret Sauce

A combination of cellular connectivity is called cellular bonding. It ensures uninterrupted connectivity with more bandwidth for downloads and uploads. It provides connectivity resilience where cellular congestion is due to heavy traffic, traffic congestion, or poor signal strength. Many factors can affect cellular reception and bandwidth; cellular connection bonding is the best technology to address the issue.

Let’s take a closer look at the factors affecting cellular reception

1. Terrain challenges like hills, dense foliage or large buildings
2. Weather conditions like fog, heavy cloud cover, rain, temperature inversions and electromagnet interference
3. Number of users
4. Location choices like urban, suburbs or rural
5. Date-intensive applications like video conferencing, gaming, etc.
6. Building material intervention like concrete walls, metal, tinted glass, etc.
7. Spectrum bands
8. Closeness to the cellular tower
9. Static or dynamic motion

Experience greater resilience with carrier diversity.
The selection of various mobile network providers can provide greater resiliency as packets are moved across multiple connections in the bonded link for better bandwidth, protecting them from packet loss, connection drops, and latency. The upload and download speeds vary in a mobile network. They change from country to country, specific location, carrier provider, and network congestion.

Network congestion is expected in places where crowds throng. Many applications need more Mbps upload bandwidth, especially for high-definition and low-latency videos. In such cases, meagre upload speed can be a deterrent.

How do aggregate multiple cellular connections help?
Wireless internet connectivity is crucial for applications, with significantly higher upload speeds for quick transmission of high-quality live videos and real-time data. Multi-modem cellular bonding devices are used to aggregate multiple cellular connections. Bonded cellular technology helps aggregate bandwidth from various connections of the same or different carriers. The bottom line is to get sufficient bandwidths for all the business applications without lags.

Reasons why one connection is not sufficient
There may be scenarios where bandwidth from a single carrier is not enough in a particular location to run all your applications. A single connection can leave your organisation behind in the race, especially when there is a need for resilient connectivity while on the move, like in vehicles, kiosks, etc. If your employees are on the move, then it is important to choose multiple cellular connections to keep in touch with them without interruption.
It is not possible for every carrier to provide 100% coverage in all locations. Carrier network coverage is at its lowest when there is network congestion, which leads to poor service in fringe coverage areas. For this reason, carrier diversity is seen as the ideal option.

Failover
Failover solutions use one connection at a time and then move to the next connection if the first one fails. They do not aggregate bandwidth. The performance of the first connection reduces significantly before the failover, resulting in a poor experience.

Load balancing
In a load-balancing solution, several connections are used. If one fails, the session is aborted, and a new session is initiated using another connection. However, this interruption may be seen as a hindrance to critical communications that need continuous connectivity.

Continuous internet connectivity is critical for government agencies, broadcasters, production companies, industries and public safety. An unstable connection or a network breakdown is not just a nuisance but can lead to destructive results. Resilient network connectivity is needed for fixed locations, remote locations, real-time data exchange and live video transmission. Bonding cellular networks or aggregating diverse network technologies is seen as a means to achieve reliable networks.

Advantages of cellular bonding

• Quick transfer speed: Aggregating bandwidth of multiple cellular networks increases data transfer speed.
• Real-time responsiveness: It reduces load balancing capabilities, reducing live streaming delays.
• Resilient connectivity: Stable connectivity using multiple networks to avoid failure risks
• Redundancy: Even if one connection fails, it does not cause a loss of internet access. Automatic re-routing improves performance.
• Portability: It operates independently on fixed-line connectivity, offering reliable mobile jobs connectivity.

If cellular bonding is on your list, consider SMOAD multipath cellular aggregation. It allows simultaneous use of multiple cellular paths with addresses to achieve a high-throughput connection. It improves network resilience by performing recourse pooling, on which multiple addresses can be joined transparently for an end-to-end session. Want to know more? Call us for a demo!