OverTheBox is a solution which combines up to 4 Internet connections. You can connect it to any operator using only one RJ45 port. Find out how!
1. Introduction to OverTheBox
2. Part I - What it is
3. OVH launches the OverTheBox
4. Schematics : Aggregation
5. Schematics : Load Balancing
6. Schematics : Active Fail-Over
7. Technical specifications
8. Part II - Why did we do it ?
9. The choice is a luxury
10. Do you mix ?
11. The different combinations
12. Part III - How does it works ?
13. Implementation, and end-to-end schematics 14. The box is equipped with 1 RJ45 1Gbps port 15. You can connect up to 4 modems 16. The OverTheBox’s DHCP is in control 17. Wifi is managed by the modems
18. Part IV - Our recipe
19. The technologies we used
20. Infrastructure details
21. Part V - Quick start
22. Before starting
23. Subscription & first WAN
24. The funnel of activation
25. Service subscription and activation
26. Subscription
27. Running
28. Adding another WAN
29. Everything is green ? All is OK
30. Test the aggregate and the fail-over
31. Part VI - Go further
32. Onboarding center
33. GitHub
34. Thank you
6. ACTIVE FAIL-OVER
OverTheBox can keep you online in the event that one connection should fail while keeping
all active tcp connections.
OverTheBox (OTB) service maintains traffic on the OVH IP hosted.
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7. OVERTHEBOX
Processor: x86 Intel Atom E3815 (1 .46 GHz - Cache 512 ko - TDP 5W)
RAM: 2GB
Network port: 1Gb/s RJ45
Connectivity: USB 3.0 port - 5 USB 2.0 ports
HDMI port - VGA port - microphone jack
Max Download: 130Mb/s
Dimensions: 190 x 40 x 116 mm
Power supply: 12V 3A
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9. THE CHOICE IS A LUXURY
Very High Rate >= 30Mbps
§ 3.6 million lines with 1.1 million FTTH
access
High Rate <30 Mbps
§ 22.4 million of lines
The majority of people can only access to
High Rate
Source Arcep, june 2015
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10. DO YOU MIX ?
29% 17% 70%
MULTI-WAN
MIX OF
TECHNOLOGIES
MULTI-OPERATOR
ADSL+FTTH
ADSL + SDSL
ADSL + 4G
ADSL + ADSL
Source OVH Télécom customers
More than 2 connections
MULTI-WAN CUSTOMERS :
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11. DIFFERENT COMBINATIONS
FTTH ADSL
Prevent FTTH failure and long
downtime
ADSL ADSL
Double rate, failure tolerance
improved by using two different
operators
ADSL SDSL
Good download and upload rate,
suitable for VoIP, video protection,
VPN, SSH...
ADSL 4G
Suitable for preventing failure of
Internet connection
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19. TECHNOLOGIES
Aggregation MPTCP
Developed by the university Catholique de
Louvain, MPTCP (http://multipath-tcp.org/ ) allows
to establish a TCP session on several internet
access.
System
OpenWRT
TCP
Shadowsocks
UDP
Glorytun
Aggregation
MPTCP
IP packet transport
We use Shadowsocks for the TCP
trafic and Glorytun to encapsulate
the others traffic, ex:UDP, ICMP
OpenWrt
OpenWRT is a Linux distribution for
embedded devices. OpenWRTis open
source with the GPL licence:
https://openwrt.org/
We provide our developpmenton
OpenWRT :
https://github.com/ovh/overthebox-feeds
Infrastructure Cloud
On our infrastructure we aggregate the
traffic on a single IPv4.
You get access to peer wirh OVH – No port
restriction
Up to 4 Internet connections
OverTheBox is compatible with all
operators.
The differentboxes are recognized by their
DHCP. After the discovery, OverTheBox is
announced as the Internet Gateway for the
LAN.
Box
1
Box
2
Box
3
Box
4
OverTheBox
Service
Internet
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22. BEFORE STARTING
§ Active DHCP on your modems
§ The subnets have to be different
Modem 1 : 192.168.1.1
Modem 2 : 192.168.2.254
Modem n : 192.168.n.1
§ Start with the first modem
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23. SUBSCRIPTION TO THE SERVICE & FIRST WAN
§ Connect the OverTheBox like a computer
§ Go to the manager
§ Subscribe to the service
§ Validate the association on http://overthebox.ovh
§ Configure your first WAN
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33. GITHUB
§ How to start from GitHub
§ https://github.com/ovh/overthebox-openwrt
§ https://github.com/ovh/overthebox-feeds
§ Package available on :
http://download.overthebox.ovh/trunk/x86
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