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Higher Education Bandwidth Management
Effective
Bandwidth Management Requires Complete Visibility into User Activity
For many colleges and
universities, maintaining compliance with the Higher Education Act (HEA) is
considered a top priority. This recent legislation requires institutions to
monitor and control bandwidth usage for all users. With Network Composer, you
gain complete visibility and understanding of all applications and users on
your network allowing you to see at-a-glance how the actions of one user impact
your Internet connection as a whole. With visual analytics to pinpoint your
organization's security and bandwidth issues, you can more accurately
troubleshoot issues and quickly solve problems.
Network Composer utilizes
both basic and Layer 7 application signatures to quickly and accurately
identify all application requests – even those that attempt to mask themselves.
These signatures, combined with dynamic application bandwidth control, help to
minimize network latency and ensure that critical traffic has the resources
necessary to achieve peak performance. Effective bandwidth management can
eliminate the need for further investment in bandwidth upgrades and ensure your
campus is HEA compliant.
Allocate Bandwidth Optimize Internet Performance
Unlike port-based rate
limiting, Network Composer employs dynamic bandwidth shaping that creates a very
efficient Internet connection. Network Composer includes a full suite of
bandwidth control tools that allows users to take control of their Internet
connection.
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Dynamic
Bandwidth Shaping: 7 levels of priority
are available to ensure the correct amount of bandwidth is being used by the
appropriate users, applications and content.
Bandwidth will dynamically allocate in real time based on the priorities
set within a policy.
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Application
Shaping: Prioritize and/or limit the
amount of bandwidth available to certain applications.
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Content
Shaping: Prioritize and/or limit the
amount of bandwidth available to URL content.
Allow access to high bandwidth sites such as youtube.com with the
confidence that the traffic will not utilize a large portion of bandwidth.
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Group Shaping:
Prioritize and/or limit the amount of bandwidth available to a specific group
of users. Group shaping also allows for dynamic bandwidth prioritization so
that less critical groups get access to bandwidth as long as it's not needed by
critical groups
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User Shaping:
Similar to group shaping, prioritize or limit bandwidth to individual
users-even dynamically based on priority
Granular Reporting
Network
Composer provides administrators with visibility into details of your Internet
traffic. The drill down capability
allows you to get all the information you need on user/group activity, web
traffic, application traffic and threat sources. The reporting engine is integrated into the
Network Composer and does not require a standalone report server.
Real Time Reporting
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Total Internet Traffic
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Application Traffic , Total Traffic, Application
set and application detail
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Web Browsing by URL, Category and User
Historic Reporting
Comprehensive
Reporting for:
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Top Internet Users
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Top Bandwidth Users
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User/Group Activity
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Application Traffic
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P2P Usage
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URL/Category Usage
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And much more!
Report Broadcasts
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Send
regularly scheduled reports to those who need them - so they can make the right
decisions for your organization
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