Thank you Jared for posing such an important question.

We appreciate the opportunity to explain the difference of our technology. Let me begin by stating that we are in no way trying to compete with FatPipe. We admire FatPipe’s innovation. We wish to emulate the company in several ways, however we do not wish to try to duplicate any of their many wonderful technologies.

The truth is that you can, (and probably should) use FatPipe’s load balancing, clustering, VPN, and other technologies in conjunction with our appliance much as you would any other appliance used to connect to the internet via cable, fiber, dsl, or other. The PipeDream appliance simply provides the fastest connection coming into the FatPipe Load Balancer.

FatPipe’s focus is on redundancy. They accomplish this with load balancing, fault tolerance, VPN, and other methodologies. This provides a high availability environment for mission critical business applications. In a nutshell, if one ISP fails, another is immediately there to keep your companies connection to the internet, and other offices in tact.

Our appliance simply multiplexes 2 or more DSL circuits into one larger circuit. We do this in a fully transparent manner. This means that no matter what type of data flows over the lines, you will realize the full potential of all circuits simultaneously. The goal of our appliance is to provide a faster single connection to the internet, and to provide a full set of firewall, NAT, and routing capabilities that are accessible by a friendly, easy to use menu.

Again, thank you for letting us clarify the widely misunderstood difference between load balancing, and multiplexing.