Multi-WAN introduction

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MESHdesk and APdesk now offer multi-WAN support.
This allows you to ensure that your customers are always connected.
The multi-WAN feature includes the following options
- Support for a number of Ethernet ports that can be used as a WAN connection.
- Support for up to three radios that can be used for WAN over WiFi.
- Support for up to six LTE modems.
You can use any combination of these connection types and customise them to suit your needs.
We offer two modes:
- Load balancing
- Failover
In load balancing mode, the active and standby connections can in turn be grouped and weighted (to distribute data traffic).
Next, we will look at the Multi-WAN Profiles applet and finally see how easy it is to apply these profiles to devices.

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A functional multi-WAN profile consists of the following:
- A name, which can be thought of as a folder of sorts, under which the interfaces are grouped. There is also a site-wide option that makes the multi-WAN profile available for all clouds in RADIUSdesk.
- One or more interfaces used for WAN access.

There will be two gentle reminders with instructions on how to make the multi-WAN profile usable.
The first one will remind you to add at least one interface.

The second one will remind you to apply a policy after you added an interface to the multi-WAN profile.

Each multi-WAN profile has an associated policy.
This is where you specify the mode of the multi-WAN profile and the weight of each interface along with the role in the case of fail-over mode.

After you applied the policy the multi-WAN profile is ready for prime time.
In the next section we will cover how to apply the to a device and also the reporting on the status of the multi-WAN connections.

When you attach a device to a mesh or access point profile there is the option to select the type of Internet connection.
If you select the Multi-WAN option, another select control will show where you can select which multi-wan profile to apply.
Remember that the multi-wan profile and hardware has to be compatible. For instance you cant use a multi-WAN profile that has a LTE interface defined on hardware that does not have LTE capability.

Multi-WAN Internet connections are visually distinctive on the overviews of mesh nodes and APs.

Multi-WAN Profiles