[AusNOG] 4G LTE bridges

[Ricki Cook]

I use Viprinet products for exactly what your describing here. https://www.viprinet.com/en

Bonds whatever service type your throw at it. Small sites with DSL &/or 4G (most with multiple 4G, from the 3 various carriers).
They also offer some SD-Wan type functionality for QoS & diversity bandwidth control. Multiple layers of CG-NAT has never been an issue either.

RF tech installs external antennas (usually Yagis / LPDA's) & aims them at the appropriate cell towers & we're up.

- Ricki
<https://www.viprinet.com/en>
From: AusNOG <ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net<mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net>> on behalf of Jay Dixon <jaybobo at gmail.com<mailto:jaybobo at gmail.com>>
Date: Tuesday, 12 July 2016 at 4:28 PM
To: James McMillan <JMcMillan at rivalea.com.au<mailto:JMcMillan at rivalea.com.au>>
Cc: ausnog <ausnog at ausnog.net<mailto:ausnog at ausnog.net>>
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] 4G LTE bridges

Thanks James - those devices fit the bill for what i was after, was hoping to get something which supported those extra bands as a few of our locations are in some borderline areas for various frequency coverage. particularly the Teltonika unit as it supports the Optus bands as well so gives me options on carrier too.

Kai - the static IP address thing hasn't been an issue for my specific deployments, the 4G gateways will always be at 'remote sites' so they will always be the end that initiates the VPN back to our DCs.
I'm planning to have them serve purely as a backup connection to a land-line service for small warehouses which are typically in locations not very well serviced by fibre/copper, the costs to get fully diverse paths into these locations are a bit prohibitive but the 4G alternative gives more than enough 'diversity' for our service level requirements.

On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 1:39 PM, James McMillan <JMcMillan at rivalea.com.au<mailto:JMcMillan at rivalea.com.au>> wrote:
Hi Kai,

I know you directed this at Jay, but I figured I may be able to help a bit.
We've got an MPLS network setup, and use the Telstra.corp APN for quite a few of our 4G/3G endpoints, that means we can push our own internal static IP addresses down to the devices, which works quite well for us.

Alternatively, if you're using telstra.extranet to get a public dynamic IP address, you should be quite easily able to setup a site to site VPN originating from the dynamic device and terminating on the static IP back in the DC or your head office.
You shouldn't need anything too special for a basic site to site VPN.


James

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From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net<mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net>] On Behalf Of Kai
Sent: Tuesday, 12 July 2016 1:21 PM
To: ausnog <ausnog at ausnog.net<mailto:ausnog at ausnog.net>>
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] 4G LTE bridges

Hi Jay,

I am in Broome, we have four remote offices 200 k's away whose only affordable available connectivity is mobile cell data.
Telstra have told me they don't allow static IP on the general mobile network.
Sat is availlable in these areas but mobile cell data is much more reliable, especially during wet season when the Sat can be down for days.
Telstra are keen to get us on the NPLS, but it's not cheap.

I recently installed a 16 element yagi at one of the remote sites, signal is great since installation, we use Telstra extranet APN but still can't get static and don't have any special routing hardware at head office to work the required magic with dynamic remote IP addresses.
What's your general experience with devices suggested so far?

Cheers
Kai

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