Businesses rely on cloud applications, voice platforms, video conferencing, collaboration tools, payment systems, and other digital services to keep operations moving. But those applications are only as reliable as the network paths they travel across.
When circuits experience latency, packet loss, jitter, congestion, or outages, users feel the impact immediately. Calls break up. Video freezes. Transactions slow down. Cloud applications become unresponsive. And IT teams are left trying to identify what changed, where the problem is happening, and how to keep traffic moving.
That is the challenge Best Path is designed to solve.
Best Path is Bigleaf’s traffic optimization technology that helps organizations deliver more consistent application performance, improve business continuity, and simplify network operations across virtually any mix of internet connections.
Why Application Performance Depends on the Path
Most business networks now depend on multiple connection types. A location may use fiber, broadband, fixed wireless, LTE, 5G, satellite, or some combination of those circuits. Each connection can behave differently throughout the day based on provider conditions, congestion, weather, signal quality, infrastructure performance, and application demand.
The challenge is that the “best” connection is not always static.
A circuit that performs well in the morning may degrade later in the day. A wireless connection may outperform a wired circuit under certain conditions. A backup link may suddenly become the better path for specific traffic. An application may need lower latency, while another may be more tolerant of variation.
Manually managing those decisions is difficult, time-consuming, and often reactive.
Best Path changes that by allowing the network to continuously evaluate conditions and make intelligent routing decisions in real time.
How Best Path Works
Best Path combines patented bi-directional circuit monitoring with intelligent traffic optimization.
Bigleaf continuously evaluates both application traffic and circuit performance up to 10 times per second. That monitoring includes key performance indicators such as:
- Latency
- Packet loss
- Jitter
- Throughput
- Speed
- Outages
Best Path also works in concert with Bigleaf’s dynamic QoS, which recognizes and prioritizes application traffic based on business importance. This ensures critical traffic such as voice, video, payment systems, and cloud applications can be treated appropriately as Best Path determines the most effective connection to use.
By measuring conditions across every available connection, Bigleaf can understand how each circuit is performing at any given moment. It then uses that real-time intelligence to determine the most appropriate path for application traffic based on current network conditions and application requirements.
When one path begins to degrade, Best Path can dynamically shift traffic to a better-performing connection. When multiple circuits are available, it can help balance utilization across them. When congestion appears, it can respond automatically to help preserve performance for critical applications.
The result is a more adaptive network experience that does not depend on constant manual tuning.
A Better Experience for Users
For end users, the value of Best Path is simple: applications work more consistently.
Employees don’t care which circuit their traffic uses. They care whether their calls stay connected, their video meetings remain clear, their cloud tools respond quickly, and their work continues without disruption.
Best Path helps support that experience by making real-time decisions behind the scenes. Instead of waiting for a circuit to fail completely before responding, degradation is identified as it happens and traffic is routed based on actual performance.
That matters because many application issues are not caused by total outages. They are caused by unstable conditions: increased jitter, intermittent packet loss, latency, or congestion that affects real-time traffic.
Best Path helps reduce the impact of those conditions before users experience major disruption.
Less Operational Burden for IT Teams
Without intelligent optimization, IT teams may need to manually configure policies, monitor circuit behavior, adjust routing, troubleshoot user complaints, and react to changing network conditions. That adds complexity, especially across distributed locations with different circuit types and providers.
Best Path helps reduce that burden by automatically adapting to circuit performance, application demands, and user activity.
Instead of constantly tuning the network, IT teams gain a more automated way to maintain performance across changing conditions. That allows them to spend less time reacting to network issues and more time supporting the business.
Built for Hybrid Connectivity
As organizations adopt more diverse connectivity strategies, traffic optimization becomes even more important.
Businesses are increasingly using combinations of wired, wireless, and satellite connections to support resilience, rapid deployment, remote locations, and business continuity. But simply having multiple circuits does not guarantee better performance.
Those circuits need to be actively monitored, intelligently used, and dynamically managed.
Best Path helps organizations take advantage of the connections available at each location by identifying the best path for traffic in real time. That makes hybrid connectivity more practical, especially for businesses that need reliable access to cloud applications and services across many locations.
The Network Should Adapt Automatically
Application performance is too important to depend on static assumptions about circuit quality.
Networks need to respond to changing conditions as they happen. Best Path gives Bigleaf customers a way to do exactly that, continuously evaluating circuit performance, application requirements, and network conditions to keep traffic moving over the most effective path available.
The result is a network experience that is more consistent for users, easier to manage for IT teams, and better aligned with how businesses operate.
Because the goal is not simply to stay connected, but rather to keep applications performing.