Fast, efficient, secure

Many roads lead to Rome

Oscar uses an analogy to illustrate the unique Clevernet approach. “We are the only company in the world that understands the whole network topology. We are like an enhancement of Google Maps for the network – using time and distance as our main criteria, our AI technology finds a range of options to enable traffic to get from point A to point B. The software analyses all the potential paths to go from one place to another and then selects the best options. Before sending a transfer, Clevernet splits the flow of information along the different paths and sends them out at the same time. Think of this as a tour group that arrives at an airport and instead of being transported by bus, each person is sent on their own motorcycle along different routes, thus arriving at the hotel more efficiently. It makes for a much faster and more secure transfer of data.”

Clevernet leverages all of a customer’s paid internet connections/ISPs to significantly reduce downtime, protect data in motion, and more effectively use all of its paid available bandwidth. The customer can add up the total bandwidth and use all of it — when a file is transferred, flows are sent simultaneously via the paths from all the connections/ISPs, significantly increasing the file transfer speed. This “Simultaneous Multi-Path” steers traffic through the optimal tunnels, ensuring that the best available connections are being utilised all the time. “What’s more,” Oscar adds, “this means that if you have two or more connections /ISPs, and one of them goes down, your endusers’ connections are automatically steered to an available one so end users never experience downtime.”

Adapting to a new world

And in the current COVID-19 climate, such solutions have become more essential than ever. “We see that people have to work from home and fortunately our solution allows them to be very productive while putting data in motion safely first. Clevernet has two different software solutions, the first one, Clevernet Boost, is implemented site-to-site, site-to-cloud or cloud-to-cloud. An example of the former is a clinic with doctors located across multiple geographical sites that needs to ensure online patient profiles are backed-up daily to various private data centres. Normally, this process can take several hours, but installing Clevernet saves time, where time is essential. The software can help save patients in critical conditions while ensuring confidential patient data-in-motion is secure. Meanwhile, our site-to-cloud solution enables companies to maintain part of their service infrastructure in the cloud, thereby making businesses more dynamic.”

When the Clevernet team saw what was happening last February in Italy, the company decided to accelerate its second solution, Clevernet Remote, based on the same patented WAN optimisation technology as Clevernet Boost. “We realised that employees working from home tend to have less bandwidth capability and corporate VPN connections are often ineffective since they significantly slow down the internet. Clevernet Remote is several times faster more secure and reliable than any traditional corporate VPN. Additionally Covid-19 changed our approach to R&D since we realised we needed to be more versatile and adaptable to changing circumstances. The whole world has had to adapt.”