Unwired Edge Cloud

API

  • API introduction
  • API useful features
  • API GraphQL introduction
  • API for firmware rollout configuration
  • APIs for 3rd party devices
  • Metrics API
  • Telemetry API

Guides

  • OpenVPN Layer 3 Routed container guide
  • Teltonika RUT/RUTX upgrade procedure

Containers

  • Container introduction
  • Container demo: simple container from scratch
  • Container demo: webserver with php
  • Container demo: OpenVPN L3 with NAT
  • Unwired On-board Media Portal specs

Unwired Edge Cloud Console

  • Unwired Edge Cloud Console
  • User Roles
  • Captive Portal Media Guidelines

CloudLink

  • CloudLink Introduction
  • CloudLink Licenses for 3rd Party Devices
  • CloudLink for Teltonika RutOS
  • CloudLink vs self-hosted Bondix
    • Implementation comparison
    • Operating your own Bondix server
    • Using CloudLink
    • Custom geo regions
    • Contact

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Unwired Edge Cloud OS

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Supported devices

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Unwired Edge Cloud
  • CloudLink vs self-hosted Bondix

CloudLink vs self-hosted Bondix

CloudLink is a managed service operating Bondix servers in different geo regions around the world in a secure, highly available and reliable manner. This service is fully monitored, controlled and operated by Unwired Networks.

Routers can connect to this service in order to aggregate their uplinks and get full access to Bondix features without operating a server infrastructure yourself.

Alternatively you can operate a Bondix server yourself. Depending on your security, reliability and cost requirements, this document serves to ensure the right decision for your application.

Implementation comparison

Feature

Bondix self-hosted

CloudLink

High availability

None[1]

Fully highly available

Security

Hardcoded passwords and
manual certificate rotation

Certificates with automatic rotation[2]

Monitoring

Your operations team

Fully monitored by Unwired Networks
operations team

Authentication

Tunnel name + password
or manual CA config

Certificates

Setup cost

Your time to setup the server
and operate, update, monitor and
securely maintain it

None

Operating cost

Servers + maintenance personell

Fixed monthly fee per device

Setup time

Your installation time

None/available immediately

Typical use cases

Small deployments, development
and testing environments, company
already has a full opertions team.

Low latency, high bandwidth, reliable
production deployments for few to
many routers

  • High availability:

    • CloudLink is operated in highly available clusters with a minimum of 3 worker nodes per geo region in order to improve fault tolerance during:

      • hardware or software faults

      • software updates

      • system maintenance and security updates

    • Bondix self-hosted running on a single VM will always have a single point of failure

Operating your own Bondix server

You can operate your own servers and virtual machines and install Bondix server and operate it yourself.

The main tasks required for a production deployment would be:

  • solid certificate infrastructure with certificate rotation

    • alternatively assign passwords to each router/tunnel and rotate those regularly manually

  • operating a fallback server (which has to be in sync with the main server’s passwords and certificates)

  • solid client-side certificate infrastructure

    • alternatively use hardcoded passwords

  • operations of the service:

    • monitoring

    • OS and system updates

    • security fixes

    • Bondix updates

  • quality assurance:

    • testing infrastructure functionality before applying an update

While this makes sense for small installations, testing and development setups, and all setups with custom requirements or on-premise requirements, it needs a solid operational foundation to operate at scale and in a production enviroment.

Using CloudLink

CloudLink simplifies those challenges by offering a simple monthly-cost service that can easily be rolled out and is fully operated by Unwired Networks.

CloudLink is operated on a solid operational foundation in clusters around the world. The clusters are designed to handle very large bandwidth peaks and have sufficient CPU power to work under a wide range of production requirements. Our data centers peer very well to other local and international ISPs in order to reduce latency.

Custom geo regions

CloudLink is available in many geo regions around the world. For projects with geo regions that are not available right now, additional geo regions can be added. Please contact sales@unwirednetworks.com to learn more.

Contact

For any additional information about CloudLink, regional availability or technical consulting, including consulting about operating production Bondix servers please contact sales@unwirednetworks.com.


[1]

a fallback server could be operated, but unless a full certificate infrastructure is deployed, using tunnel names and passwords, all these passwords will need to be updated on each server and manually kept in sync.

[2]

required for companies with ISO27001 key material rotation policies

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