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Featured Solution: Mushroom Networks
About Mushroom Networks
Mushroom
Networks, Incorporated, is a San Diego, California-based company with
the mission to provide innovative networking solutions. Our products and
services are focused on a range of networking solutions for Internet
access for the broadband industry and networking solutions for the
digital living room. Mushroom Networks was founded in 2004 as a spin-off
from the University of California at San Diego (UCSD). The leadership
team has over 70 years of collective cutting edge research and
development experience in the networking field, and has management
experiences at a wide array of companies from small and large technology
enterprises to venture capital.
Mushroom
Networks’ products are based on the unique and patent pending Broadband
Bonding® technology developed by our engineering team through extensive
research and development.
Case Study: ModCloth.com
Company Overview
ModCloth.com is a democratic fashion retailer. The company interacts with customers via social network sites, requests feedback through the ModLife Blog and product reviews, and asks customers to vote on potential inventory with the Be the Buyer program. Supplying customers with the opportunities to have their voice heard is what keeps the company fresh, relevant, and growing by leaps and bounds. ModCloth’s business depends on a reliable high speed connection to the internet.
Challenge
ModCloth has experienced tremendous growth in the last year, opening three new offices. The company has moved employees into the new offices almost immediately after obtaining the new spaces, and long before permanent high speed network circuits could be installed. This situation presented a unique challenge. The company wanted to establish high speed internet connectivity without waiting two to three months for a permanent high speed internet line to be installed.
Solution
ModCloth’s Infrastructure Manager implemented a network system using a Truffle BBNA 6401 with Mushroom Networks’ Broadband Bonding Service to bring new offices online quickly. Because it is usually very quick and easy to get DSL lines, the company uses the Mushroom device to bond 6 DSL lines to create one high speed internet connection.
The Truffle is peered with the Mushroom Networks Broadband Bonding Service, with is hosted in the internet cloud. This allows for uplink and downlink bonding of all type of traffic, creating a high-speed option for both directions. ModCloth has used the Truffle to “startup” three offices, and plans to continue to use it as the initial means of network connectivity each time a new office is opened.
ModCloth’s Infrastructure Manager puts it best:
ModCloth.com is a democratic fashion retailer. The company interacts with customers via social network sites, requests feedback through the ModLife Blog and product reviews, and asks customers to vote on potential inventory with the Be the Buyer program. Supplying customers with the opportunities to have their voice heard is what keeps the company fresh, relevant, and growing by leaps and bounds. ModCloth’s business depends on a reliable high speed connection to the internet.
Challenge
ModCloth has experienced tremendous growth in the last year, opening three new offices. The company has moved employees into the new offices almost immediately after obtaining the new spaces, and long before permanent high speed network circuits could be installed. This situation presented a unique challenge. The company wanted to establish high speed internet connectivity without waiting two to three months for a permanent high speed internet line to be installed.
Solution
ModCloth’s Infrastructure Manager implemented a network system using a Truffle BBNA 6401 with Mushroom Networks’ Broadband Bonding Service to bring new offices online quickly. Because it is usually very quick and easy to get DSL lines, the company uses the Mushroom device to bond 6 DSL lines to create one high speed internet connection.
The Truffle is peered with the Mushroom Networks Broadband Bonding Service, with is hosted in the internet cloud. This allows for uplink and downlink bonding of all type of traffic, creating a high-speed option for both directions. ModCloth has used the Truffle to “startup” three offices, and plans to continue to use it as the initial means of network connectivity each time a new office is opened.
ModCloth’s Infrastructure Manager puts it best:
Conclusion
ModCloth’s Infrastructure Manager was able to achieve high bandwidth with the Mushroom device for only a few hundred dollars. It would normally cost several thousand dollars for the same speed dedicated bandwidth line. The greatest benefit for ModCloth, however, is quantified by not having downtime for employees during the first few weeks they are in a new office.
