SD-WAN Solutions for Healthcare

The Solution: Peplink Cellular SpeedFusion Bonding

SpeedFusion SD-WAN combines the bandwidth of multiple cellular connections into a single VPN tunnel with the speed and reliability of all links combined. In order to implement SpeedFusion SD-WAN, we need two peers: a central bonding router connected to a reliable high speed internet source (i.e. hospital or data center) and the remote peer that has multiple cellular WANs to be bonded. The bonding router, a Peplink Balance Router or FusionHub virtual appliance, is used to receive VPN traffic from the multiple internet connections of the remote peer router.

Bonding increases reliability and security by encrypting all WANs, splitting traffic over those WANs and centralising your security architecture. A VPN is secure, but a SpeedFusion VPN splits the data over several WANs and basically, only a small piece of each 256bit AES encrypted packet flows through each WAN. For more added security when setting up remote sites, with Peplink SpeedFusion VPN,  “deny all in / deny all out” should set as default firewall rule. This allows all the traffic from the mobile clinic to flow through the hospital’s firewall making sure security policies are enforced.