Helios’s edge SD-WAN device, the Helios Socket, combines various internet connections such as cable, fiber, broadband, or cellular into a unified logical tunnel. Helios intelligently directs application traffic across available links, considering factors like application profile, priority, and link status. The integration of Helios’s SD-WAN software with multiple redundant transports effectively counters link blackouts and brownouts, guaranteeing continuous network service that was once exclusive to private connections.
With Helios SD-WAN, your applications’ traffic is routed and prioritized based on assigned Quality of Service (QoS) policy. Helios provides a customizable application prioritization policy to ensure latency-sensitive applications such as voice, video, and remote desktops are always given network access ahead of bandwidth-intensive background applications such as backups. To further improve application performance, Helios overcomes packet loss on the last mile internet connection and across the middle mile. TCP acceleration improves network efficiency and speed, reducing data transfer times. With link resiliency, application prioritization and acceleration, and packet loss mitigation, Helios enhances the user experience and maximizes productivity when using business-critical applications.
