Simply5 vMPLS · One network in several places
Your main office network, at every branch
Simply5 vMPLS stretches one network between your sites over ordinary internet connections. A vMPLS server goes in at the main site and a vMPLS client at each far site. Whatever you plug in at a far site behaves as if it were plugged into the switch at the main site.
One server and one client to start
Add a client for each further site. The hardware is paid for once, with a yearly subscription for each gateway.
One cable at each end, and the sites are one network
Cameras, tills, printers and computers at a far site get their addresses and their rules from your own firewall, exactly as the ones at the main site do.
One cable at each end
At the main site, a LAN cable runs from your core switch or firewall to the vMPLS server. At a far site, one cable runs from the vMPLS client to a switch.
Encrypted over the internet
Each client dials the server and builds an encrypted tunnel. Any internet connection at the far site will do.
Your firewall stays in charge
Simply5 hands out no addresses and applies no filters or speed caps on this network, and does not sit in its path as a router.
Several far sites, one server
Every client joins the same network as the server, so devices at any site see the main office and each other, as if they shared one switch.
Direct, never relayed
Traffic goes straight from each far site to your main site. None of it passes through Simply5’s cloud.
Gateways made for the job
A vMPLS gateway does this one thing. It is not a site’s WiFi or sign-in gateway, and it needs no site console.
Set up and watched from Simply5 Central
vMPLS belongs to your organisation, so it lives in Simply5 Central under Private networks, beside CloudLAN.
Ready when you order
Your gateways are listed in Central as soon as the order is placed. One that is not plugged in yet reads Not seen yet.
A group in a few steps
Pick the server, tick the clients, name them and create the vMPLS group. Each gateway takes its settings by itself.
Live status for each site
Connected, Connecting or Down for every client, with its last contact, the data sent and received and whether a cable is in its port.
An alert when a site drops
A client that is down for five minutes raises an alert in Central. It clears itself when the site reconnects.
Loop protection
If a cabling loop appears beyond a gateway, it switches its network port off, tells you where, and tries again by itself.
Add a site before it is live
A client that is still in its box can be put in a group. It reads Pending to be online and connects when it is plugged in.
What your sites need
What decides whether vMPLS fits, and which server you need.
A fixed address at the main site
The server needs a static public address: its own, or your router’s with one port forwarded to it. Far sites need nothing special.
A server sized to your line
Choose the server by the speed of the main site’s internet connection: up to 100 Mbps, up to 300 Mbps or up to 1 Gbps.
Admins of the organisation
Groups are created and changed by the organisation’s owner and admins in Simply5 Central.
As fast as the slower line
The network between two sites is as fast as the slower internet connection at either end. A group uses one internet line that you choose.
The main site is the hub
If the server at the main site is offline, the far sites lose this network until it is back.
It extends, it does not replace
Your firewall, your address server and your internet lines stay as they are. vMPLS carries the network they already serve.
Goes with
vMPLS runs on its own gateways. These are for the Simply5 Gateway at each site.
More than one gateway at a site
Additional Gateway
An add-on to the Campus suite
Additional Gateway in detailHow it is sold
A bundle starts the network and one client adds each further site. Tell us the main site’s internet speed and how many sites you have.
vMPLS bundle
A main site and its first far site
Hardware once, then yearly
Main site internet speed
- Up to 100 Mbps
- Up to 300 Mbps
- Up to 1 Gbps
- One vMPLS server
- One vMPLS client
- Managed in Simply5 Central
vMPLS client
Each further far site
Hardware once, then yearly
- One vMPLS client
- Joins the group you already have
From order to live
- 1
Order
One bundle for the main site and the first far site, and a client for each further site.
- 2
Plug in
Port 1 goes to the internet. The last port takes the cable to your core switch, or out to the far site’s switch.
- 3
Create a vMPLS group
In Simply5 Central, pick the server and the clients. Central gives you a note for whoever runs your router.
- 4
Plug in the far sites
Each client connects by itself. What is plugged in behind it joins your main office network.
What you get
Included
- A vMPLS server for the main site and a client for each far site
- Encrypted tunnels straight between your sites
- One network: your addresses and your firewall
- Set-up and live status in Simply5 Central
- Alerts when a site drops, and loop protection
- A replaced gateway keeps its place in the group
Order online in India. Hardware ships to your site, ready to plug in.
Ready when you are.
Order online and your Simply5 Gateway ships already tagged to your order, ready to plug in.
Order online in India. Hardware ships to your site, ready to plug in.