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| "We have been using it in 12 locations for about a year. Network Composer makes it easy to troubleshoot and monitor network concerns. It allows you to get very granular with bandwidth shaping." |
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Sept 30, 2008
Cymphonix has announced that Mercy High School in Farmington Hills, Michigan, has integrated the Cymphonix Network Composer DC30X as its content filtering solution and now has complete visibility into all of its Internet and web-based application traffic.
Mercy High School is in the process of implementing a 1:1 student to computer program and recognized that their previous filtering solution did not have the capabilities necessary for administrators to accurately see where their 800 students and over 80 faculty and staff were going online. Mercy High School therefore required a content filtering solution that would not only allow them to filter content and prioritize bandwidth, but also provide network administrators the necessary reporting tools to see both historically and in real-time, what activity was being generated by individual users and how much bandwidth each was consuming.
"We really didn't know where our traffic was coming from or where our students were going when they were online," commented Adele M. Stommel, IHM and Director of Information Technology for Mercy High School. "We needed a solution that would quickly and accurately provide both historical and real-time data so we, as administrators, could monitor student traffic, bandwidth usage and also see what bandwidth capacity we would need to implement in the future as we move from a word processing to a multi-media curriculum."
Once Mercy High School installed the Cymphonix Network Composer DC30, network administrators saw value in their investment within the first week. "Monitoring content is very much a cat and mouse game and Network Composer reduced the frustration of the chase dramatically. Not only does the appliance identify exactly who is accessing the content or attempting to bypass our filters, it also shows how much bandwidth each user is consuming. It was very surprising to us to see that P2P software was one of the biggest bandwidth hogs on our network and it also shocked us to see how much time students were passing throughout the day by visiting sites like YouTube," commented Stommel.
Stommel finished, "Before we decided to move forward with a new content filter, we considered installing another T1 connection to help with our bandwidth issues. As it turns out, not only was integrating the Network Composer a more cost-effective decision on our part, but we are now in our second year operating our network at the same bandwidth capacity - even though we have doubled the number of users!"
About Cymphonix
Cymphonix Corporation, headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, uses patent-pending technology to reveal, optimize and automate Internet security. With deep-packet scanning technology, Cymphonix solutions address the issues created by evolving content - including web applications and bandwidth-intensive websites. Cymphonix products seamlessly integrate network protection, application performance, and traffic visibility into a single, easily managed solution. Leading the Cymphonix product line is Network Composer, a smart gateway appliance that helps organizations understand at a glance who is abusing network resources and with what applications - enabling problems to be corrected instantly through a clear, easy-to-manage interface. More information about Cymphonix can be found at www.cymphonix.com .
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