Session Bonding vs. Packet Bonding

Packet bonding is no match for session bonding, as it is a far superior solution to accelerate and optimize network connectivity. Session bonding interrupts a single end-user session, splitting it into several outbound sessions. The outbound sessions optimize the requests for data across the most suitable path using the fastest server.

In short, session bonding allows a single user’s session to use the combined bandwidth for all the accessible WAN tunnels or links. In doing so, the connection to remote application servers is greatly improved. For instance, a user downloads a file that utilizes the bandwidth of more than two links. If session bonding were not in place, the file would not download as quickly.

Since it is in this example, the downloaded file is obtained at the same time across each of the links used. What happened? Through session bonding, bandwidth was used with each link for the file at one time, resulting in increased performance, and best of all, supplying automated redundancy. As a result, it makes packet bonding an outdated and ineffective tool to use.

Where Does Packet Bonding Stand in All of This?

Packet bonding sends single IP packets through single internet connections while making use of a router to share the packets over several connections. The downside of using packet bonding is that it unable to send traffic to remoter servers, as it employs a specific IP address that is already routed to one of the user’s connections.

This means that packet bonding will have a negative effect on the performance of the network, as it will not quickly download the file onto a user’s computer, but take its time. For this reason, session bonding is classified as one of the best in routing data in comparison to packet bonding.

Benefits of Session Bonding

Why should your company use session bonding? These benefits will explain why session bonding is a must technology for companies:

1.      Session bonding delivers packets that come in one piece, as packets are not being changed from a single WAN link to multiple links.

2.      Session bonding deliver enhance performance because it does not generate retransmission of TCP packets.

3.       Session bonding allows quicker application failover because it does not keep sending packets over the same link, which is corrupted.

4.      Session bonding is not costly to utilize, as companies will not need to attach a device at the other end to combine packets within the same session, which have been divided between several WAN links.

5.      Session bonding offers additional scalable bandwidth options for applications that use the internet through link speed bonding.

With more applications using sessions to maintain active communication with customers, the need for session bonding has increased. Companies should not waste time mulling over the thought of choosing session bonding or packet bonding, as proven here, session bonding should be the chosen one.

If your company does not have session bonding, contact us so we can provide you with the benefits of using session bonding.