This newsletter brings you two formidable additions to our Bondix partner family, Digi International and NEO-CONNECT, a great example of a Bondix trial campaign from a partner that we want to share with all of you, some saveworthy dates, and - of course - new release notes.
New Bondix Partner Digi International
On April 18, Digi International (NASDAQ: DGII), a leading global provider of Internet of Things (IoT) solutions, connectivity products and services, and Bondix Intelligence, have announced their partnership to deliver true Gigabit speeds for dramatically enhanced network performance with Digi’s latest value-added service – Digi WAN Bonding. This solution, which is fully integrated into the Digi technology stack, also dramatically improves Internet reliability, and increases bandwidth for customers in the enterprise, industrial and transportation sectors.
Here’s to a successful partnership! 🤝
Learn more about Digi WAN Bonding: Digi WAN Bonding
If you've missed our joint webinar on WAN Bonding, watch it here: WAN Bonding: Ultra-Fast and Reliable Internet Connections | Digi International
New Bondix Distributor for Baltics & Ukraine NEO-CONNECT
Starting April 1, 2023, we’ve signed a new Bondix distributor for the Baltics - Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Ukraine - NEO-CONNECT from Vilnius, LT. NEO-CONNECT, UAB was founded in 2014 and is the only distributor of Diebold-Nixdorf products in the Baltic States. The company is also involved in the development of smart homes, residential and commercial automation.
They offer their customers complete home automation solutions (from A to Z), from smart access control, video surveillance, security systems and indoor climate control to smart tablet holders that can be integrated into any interior. With equipment from NEO-CONNECT, you can create smart scenarios for your home or other spaces, make home maintenance easier and more comfortable than before, and finally find time for yourself and your family, because you can hand over all your worries to your smart home.
Here’s to a successful partnership! 🥂
Learn more: Neo-connect Smart Home
SimpliWiFi Offers Bondix 14-Day Trial
For all their Teltonika partners, Bondix UK distributor SimpliWiFi offers a 14-days free trial of the Bondix S.A.NE software until the end of June! With that, they can test WAN Bonding on their Teltonika devices with no obligation.
If you’re interested in trying the software in combination with your Teltonika Router, don’t hesitate to request your free 14-day Bondix S.A.NE test license here: BONDIX S.A.NE 14-DAY FREE TRIAL - SimpliWiFi - Connectivity and Communications Agency. SimpliWiFi will then contact you as soon as possible to implement the software on your Teltonika router.
If you're rather interested in doing such a trial campaign yourself for your own country, customers, and prospects, here's all you need: Trial Campaign | Bondix
And don't forget: You can always refer potential customers for a free 7-day Bondix S.A.NE trial to our permanent trial registration right here (great content btw for a quick LinkedIn update ;-)!
Saveworthy Dates
With ever more partners joining the Bondix network, we'd like to use our reach to point out events that our partners or we organize or attend and that might be of interest to all of you.
May 2023
25 May - 4 June: Hay Festival with SimpliWiFi
Our Bondix UK distributor SimpliWiFi is proud to for the 4th year provide 10-day Hay Festival with and manage all IT, CCTV, WiFi, and Telecoms infrastructure to accomodate for more than 100.000 visitors. We wish SimpliWiFi more good weather, a lot of fun, and a very successful festival!
Read more here: SimpliWiFi - Connectivity and Communications Agency to provide Hay Festival with fully managed event IT services for 10 day festival
July 2023
13 / Digi International: Hardware Pioneers Max 2023
Digi will do a presentation at UK's largest exhibition and conference dedicated to cutting-edge technologies, solutions and tools for innovation-driven engineering teams, this year's Hardware Pioneers Max, on Data Analytics and Security. Come and visit Digi at booth 54 in the Business Design Centre in London, on July 13, 2023, and join them in their presentation at 11 a.m. in room 2.
Learn more: Hardware Pioneers Max 2023 - 13 July, London
If you also have an event you want featured in the Bondix newsletter, please contact marketing@bondixintelligence.com.
Bondix S.A.NE May 2023 Release Notes
Our developers work on Bondix S.A.NE software incrementally which means that bug fixes, improvements, and even new features are constantly added, producing new release versions every couple of days.
On a monthly basis, we publish a version that combines all changes added since the last version.
This May 2023 Release contains the following changes:
New Features
Transparent Bonding Proxy (BETA)
The Transparent Bonding Proxy feature allows our bonding proxy to use the original client's source IP when proxying a connection. This requires additional setup and must be explicitly enabled; also, it’s expressly a BETA feature. You can find information on how to do that in our Bondix Knowledge Base Wiki.
Teltonika FW 07.04.3 Support
We now fully support Teltonika Network’s 07.04.3 firmware. If you intend on switching to this Teltonika firmware release directly from a major earlier version (07.0X.X), we recommend you reset your router before updating to this Bondix Release Version in order to ensure you achieve the bandwidths you’re used to. In this case, don’t forget to backup your settings.
Improvements
Client
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Server
Web Interface Update In the Bondix S.A.NE server’s web interface, unsaved changes are now highlighted in red. This fixes certain situations in which changes were not immediately saved to disk.
SNMP MIB Overhaul The SNMP MIB was updated to reflect current information that hasn’t been shown before.
Enhanced Installation The Bondix S.A.NE server installation script now supports ARMx64 architecture.
Bug Fixes
Client
An issue was fixed where "Proxy paused connection timeout" log messages could spam on the client if the tunnel was only barely connected, e.g. with only a single uplink that had bad reception or was severely throttled. Also, the overall amount of (debug) proxy log messages was reduced.
Client will no longer attempt to set a WAN interface to standby if the server does not support it. This could cause a tunnel session reset in the past.
An issue where the client would occasionally restart after being disabled in the web interface was fixed.
Client will no longer crash when it was connected to a backup server.
The DNS cache is now invalidated when a tunnel is fully disconnected.
Server
An issue where tunnel routes on server shutdown were removed was fixed.
The use of “ip route” in server route scripts was fixed.
Tunnel names with trailing spaces are now handled properly–it should no longer be possible to create them in the server web interface.
bxsnmp is now reporting all tunnel channel information but will block until first tunnel info is received. Also, first snmp get/walk should no longer yield no results.
Download the release notes here: Release Notes (PDF file, 203kB)
Choose the latest Bondix S.A.NE Client for your router here: Releases
If you have special projects and need older versions, please contact support@bondixintelligence.com.
If you need technical assistance or experience troubles installing or using Bondix S.A.NE, please contact support@bondixintelligence.com.
If you're interested in and have the means for testing and evaluating incremental changes to the software, please contact development@bondixintelligence.com.