Is it a way to get access to the internet? Is it an alternative to LTE/5G? Why is SFC data 10x less expensive than eSIM data in the data plans? Do you need to be located in one of the cities shown on the SFC map in order to use it?
Its a Peplink-hosted Speedfusion endpoint. Think of it like a VPN server, hosted in AWS or other public cloud, that you can send some of your traffic through.
For Speedfusion to do some of its fancy traffic engineering work (like forward error correction and wan smoothing), you need to have another âendâ of the tunnel to have the traffic be send out as normal. You can host it yourself with another peplink device or fusionhub virtual appliance, but if that doesnât suit you then you can use the Peplink hosted ones, Speedfusion Connect.
They are all in public clouds with top quality internet connections, so once your traffic leaves that point its on a reliable/high speed path to its final destination.
You can use any one you want, your traffic will be in the speedfusion tunnel from where you are to that Speedfusion Connect endpoint, and then when it exists at that point its on the public internet. So you pick it close to the traffic destination.
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For example, I work for a customer in England that requires logging in once a week of youâre in the UK, but everywhere else it is 8 hours. So that I donât have to go through the tortuous authentication process every day, I use an SFC tunnel for work traffic to London to be âin the UKâ.
We also use it as a âpublic IP pointâ for the failover between Starlink and Verizon Wireless. Otherwise, the IP address changes upon failover and connections are dropped and must be restarted. With SFC, regardless of which ISP is in use, the IP address remains consistent to the destinations.
SFC data is in addition to any other actual ISP data plan, you have to have an ISP already to then implement SFC on top of that.
it is not a VPN however, because the traffic is not encrypted.
Note that many sites that look for âVPNâ traffic to block, the SFC endpoints typically are classified as VPN and blocked.
-Michele
Ah, okay I understand now. Thank you. Someone on the marketing team should consider updating the faq page with that information.
So SFC isnât relevant for the Max Adapter since there is only a single cellular connection and no way to plug in an âinboundâ Ethernet cable?
It can still be useful for the static IP, routing rules, etc.
They should rename Speed Fusion and Fushion Hub to Confusion!
It is such a disjointed inconsistent configuration to establish a VPN between two SF capable devices.
Many things are left out, like the TCP and UDP ports that have to be open in your AWS FH instance.
Let me guess, someone will say â ah, they are in âthisâ document