Bandwidth Pooling

Bandwidth pooling is a process that allows sharing of unused bandwidth between your servers. Pooling makes it possible to exchange bandwidth between all the servers that are running. Generally, server hosting companies require users to pay more for the usage of server bandwidth which may not be even fully utilized.

With a bandwidth pool, you can share server bandwidth with all your servers and that too for free.

There are many advantages of using Bandwidth Pooling. It gives you better bandwidth control, IP address portability, virtual machine portability and enhanced bandwidth which can improve your hosting experience and give you better control over server operations.

How is bandwidth pooling done?

In a bandwidth pool, a member can fetch individual content and share them with the other members. As a result, downloadable data and bandwidth are reduced to a great extent and more bandwidth is available to all users. The speed of connection is also increased considerably.

Bandwidth Pooling for Mobile Data

Bandwidth pooling is more appropriate for mobile users than broadband users. This is because broadband users are less likely to opt for bandwidth sharing as this will defeat the purpose of choosing broadband. Businesses use broadband in order to enjoy uninterrupted speed and data all the time. They wouldn’t like to share it.

On the contrary, mobile data is far slower than typical broadband. Mobile users are, therefore, more likely to pool and redistribute their dedicated bandwidth depending on individual requirements.

Mobile service providers often restrict data speed and bandwidth for every connection. As a result, several mobile users run out of data much before the plan validity; some of them don’t finish even half of their data bundle. So, we see, mobile data is both inconvenient and unaffordable. Pooling is, thus, a safe exit for heavy mobile consumers.