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Instant Failover (Same Static-IP)

Never drop a connection again. Nepean Networks’ Instant Failover keeps your business online the moment a link fails or degrades — rerouting traffic automatically, in under 300ms, without changing your IP address. It works across any mix of connection types — 4G/5G, VDSL, fibre, MPLS, and Starlink — and scales from single-site SMBs to multi-site enterprises. For MSP resellers, real-time alerts mean you can resolve an outage before your client even notices.

Failover isn’t a feature we bolted on to SD-WAN — it’s where Nepean Networks started. We’ve been building broadband bonding and failover services since 2010, when the company began (as Fusion Broadband in Australia) helping businesses build more reliable connections.

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How It Works

Automatic, per-packet failover — if the primary link fails or degrades, traffic reroutes to the best available path with no manual input and no change of IP address, so nothing needs to re-authenticate or re-establish a session.

Supported Connection Types

Automatic, per-packet failover — if the primary link fails or degrades, traffic reroutes to the best available path with no manual input and no change of IP address, so nothing needs to re-authenticate or re-establish a session.

Built for MSPs

Real-time reseller alerts, full white-label, and deployed across 200+ partners spanning Australia, Asia, North America, the UK, South Africa – anywhere in the world.

Instant Failover vs. Internet Acceleration (Link Bonding) — Which Do You Need?

Different problems: Failover is redundancy — switching to a backup link the instant your primary connection drops. Link Bonding is throughput — combining multiple links simultaneously (per-packet, with proprietary tunnelling) to increase available bandwidth. 

Many customers run both ->

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What Our Partners Say

“Talking Business Co has partnered with Nepean Networks for many years to provide stable bonded internet solutions to our customers — be it for simple fail-over or for full performance resilience bonding. Their reliability is second to none and I highly recommend their services.”

— Brett Merriman, Talking Business Co

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Frequently Asked Questions

A: No. Nepean’s Instant Failover keeps the same static IP address throughout the switch to a backup link, so your firewall, VPN tunnels, and active sessions never need to renegotiate a new connection. Combined with the sub-300ms, per-packet switchover, that’s what keeps the transition seamless rather than a visible drop. It’s the same static-IP, per-packet architecture behind Internet Acceleration (Link Bonding) — the two features share the same underlying technology, just applied to redundancy instead of throughput.
A: Under 300ms, and it operates on a per-packet basis rather than waiting for an entire connection to fail before reacting — individual packets can be rerouted the moment the primary path degrades, not only after a hard outage is confirmed.
A: Fully automatic, no manual input required. If the primary link fails or degrades, traffic is instantly rerouted through the best available path. Link health and failover status can be monitored centrally through the Antares Management Portal, which provides real-time visibility across all your SD-WAN nodes.
Any combination of 4G/5G, VDSL, fibre, MPLS, and Starlink — as a primary link, a backup link, or blended in a hybrid setup. Hybrid WAN deployments combining MPLS, broadband, LTE, and Starlink are supported under one management framework, so primary and backup don’t need to match connection types.
Yes. Starlink is fully supported as part of the SD-WAN architecture, usable as either a primary or backup link — useful for remote or underserved sites, or as backup where a wired connection is primary. More detail on supported connection types is on the SD-WAN FAQ page.

A: Yes — hybrid WAN deployments combining MPLS, broadband, LTE, and Starlink run under a single, unified management framework, so a multi-site business doesn’t need identical connection types at every location.

A: Two different problems. Instant Failover is redundancy — it holds a backup link ready and switches to it automatically, keeping the same static IP, the moment your primary connection fails or degrades. Internet Acceleration (Link Bonding) is throughput — it combines multiple links simultaneously, using a per-packet approach with proprietary tunnelling technology, to increase available bandwidth for every flow rather than just holding one in reserve. Many customers run both together: bonded links for day-to-day performance, failover protecting against a link going down entirely.

A: Built to scale from single-site SMBs to multi-site enterprises. The same platform runs across Nepean’s 200+ MSP and ISP partners, serving customers in banking, healthcare, education, government, and manufacturing, among other sectors — see About Us.

A: Yes — resellers get real-time alerts, so an outage can be identified and resolved before the client notices, rather than waiting for them to report it. Details on reselling under your own brand are on the Become a Partner page.

A: Since 2010. Broadband bonding/aggregation and failover were the company’s original services, launched under the Fusion Broadband name in Australia, before the platform evolved into the full modular SD-WAN offering Nepean provides today.

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