02-10-2020 02:09 AM
Hi all,
I am a newbie to the networking world and I was just wondering if someone can explain to me what the term BACKHAULING means.
In layman terms please, I have also had a look at google images and this still confuses me.
Thanks in advance
02-10-2020 02:32 AM
here is good understanding information:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backhaul_%28telecommunications%29
Cisco Provider information :
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/service-provider/mobile-internet/index.html
02-10-2020 04:54 AM
In addition to the telecommunications-related citations mentioned by @balaji.bandi, we often use the term backhauling to describe forcing traffic to traverse a path that's not optimum so that we can put it through certain services at a remote location. For instance, forcing a branch office's Internet traffic to go back to the main office for enforcement of security policy and logging rather than directly out via the local Internet circuit.
02-12-2020 06:44 AM
Hi Marvin,
I still don't understand this - can you explain this in a more simplified form.
Thanks
02-12-2020 07:57 PM
Consider this scenario:
You have a head office and remote branch offices. All sites have Internet connections. All remote branch offices have site-site VPN to the head office (maybe it goes via the Internet circuit, maybe it's MPLS or some other private line - doesn't matter).
Traffic from a branch site is destined for the Internet. We force that traffic to transit the head office instead of going directly out the local connection.
That's backhauling.
02-13-2020 05:25 AM
Thanks Marvis, this defiantly makes sense to me now. :)
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