I have two data centers for redundancy, each with a balance 710 (soon to be replaced with balance 2500s). Remote sites have max-br1 with cellular backup.
for most locations the 2 pepvpn limit is not an issue, but I am running into some locations where I really need a third vpn connection. Right now I will have to set those up as ipsec vpn.
I do not want to jump all the way to a 20 VPN capable, $2,000 unit just to have access to 3 or 4 connections. There is a rather large jump from the 2 vpn to the 20 in the product line.
I know that there are good reasons to limit the number of vpn connection. One is available CPU power, the other is for product segmentation. But since my two connections are there for redundancy AND there is only about 800K max of traffic from each remote site, I know the max-br1 could handle more, if it was “allowed to”.
Any chance of adding a license option for the smaller units like the MAX-BR1, similar to that on the 305? i.e. for a couple of hundred Dollars add ability to go to say 5 PEPVPN connections instead of 2? Keep the max limit still low compared to the larger units, but fill in that gap.
We have a desire to see a simple variation on this.
It would be useful to be able to configure more than two VPNs, even if only two can be active at any given moment.
That would enable much more failover flexibility for the Pepwave without exceeding the existing tunnel limit.
I want to raise this request again - we have a few customers that really need three speedfusion tunnels - two for our two data center connections for the IP phones, one for their data center (because we turned them onto Peplink). Now, each of these customers is multiple locations, so this does add up.
What I am requesting is to be able to PURCHASE ability to do a few more pepvpn/speedfusion connections on a max-br1. Not 20…just go from limit of 2 to say 4, for a reasonable cost, perhaps $100.
This allows us to stay with the max-br1, but does not make it vampire sales from larger balance units. And since we are only talking about going to 4 connections cpu/memory resources should not be an issue
Thank you Pelink! This hits the second of two important requests I have had fulfilled in the last few days (the “prioritize speedfusion traffic over regular WAN traffic” seems to be working well in testing).
I should be purchasing 3 or 4 of these licenses this week.