BANMAN v1.0

Bandwidth management system

BANMAN 1.0 delivers required QoS for your network, to better utilize expensive bandwidth & assign it for the most productive purposes. It not only helps organizations to get the most out of available bandwidth but also give a clear estimation of total bandwidth requirement.

Features of BANMAN (Bandwidth Management System):

• Browser based administration.

• Simple and easy installation.

• Bandwidth limiting and allocation based on source and destination.

• Managing Bandwidth based on application (Ports).

• Unlimited Sessions or Policies.

• Control Traffic by IP, or Protocol.

• Set minimum or maximum bandwidth based on parent child concept.

• Set priority using 8 priority levels.

• Allocate traffic in, out separately.

• Built-in Firewall.

• Graphical reporting for desired IP.

• Backup of user configuration and statistical data.

• Networking utilities for testing.

 

INTRODUCTION TO BANDWIDTH MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

             Business-critical operations rely on responsive business applications. And yet non-critical applications like large email attachments and file transfers tend to dominate congestion-prone WAN and Internet links. When non-urgent and recreational traffic consume disproportionate shares of bandwidth, critical applications that organizations invest in and depend on so heavily - SAP, Oracle, Citrix, VoIP, etc. -- struggle to perform efficiently and reliably.

Without a doubt, organizations require performance, predictability, and consistency from their networks and the mission-critical applications that utilize their resources. Bandwidth Management System ensures that organizations meet these requirements.

Bandwidth Management

How Do You Stop Traffic Jams? 

BUSINESSES WAN's are under siege: businesses are deploying more interactive, time sensitive and mission critical applications. When networks get crowded or performance degrades a common reaction is simply to buy more bandwidth - often a very expensive step, but not actually a solution. All that happens is the more aggressive traffic expands to fill the available space and remains uncontrolled.

A recent IDC 500 report shows that on average 60% of existing bandwidth is consumed by non-critical traffic such as web browsing. Doubling the bandwidth sees this figure rise to 80% - hardly inspiring!

 Before any decisions can be taken the business needs to answer a number of questions:

• What is using the current bandwidth resource and in what quantities?

• How much traffic is business-critical?

• Are applications being protected commensurate with their business value?

Today's Problem:  

Corporate Intranets have become key repositories of business information needed by employees across the enterprise. Companies also rely on the existence of network-based services for their businesses, running mission critical applications for ERP, CRM, eCommerce, and more. Poor application response times, caused by the mix of business-critical and non-critical traffic on the same network, quickly translate into decreased productivity, lost revenues and increased business costs. In addition, the penetration of time-sensitive videoconferencing and voice over IP (VoIP) offer low-cost alternatives to expensive business trips and telephone conference calls, but these applications require sustained network performance and therefore place increased demands on the network.

The native IP network infrastructure, with its congested and expensive WAN links, does not provide the means for you to fully control all aspects of your complex enterprise network. Nor can you analyze network usage, prioritize the critical traffic and ensure that time-sensitive traffic will receive the appropriate network resources.

The Bandwidth Management System Solution: 

Bandwidth Management System enables mission-critical applications to run smoothly over otherwise unmanaged and congested WAN (IP) networks. The Bandwidth Management System ensures the response time of your mission-critical applications by prioritizing their traffic or guaranteeing them a portion of bandwidth. At the same time, traffic from less critical and less time-sensitive applications receives a limited amount of bandwidth or a lower priority.  

The Environment

Today's large enterprise is a multi-tiered structure with a central headquarters, possibly multiple regional headquarters, and numerous branch offices. Corporate operations may be geographically dispersed, but they are unified by a combination of domestic and international leased lines, frame relay, VPNs and satellite links. In these global networks-found in such industries as finance, retail, government, utilities, and health-business success depends on network performance. eBusiness, ERP and streaming applications like videoconferencing and VoIP require performance guarantees to ensure that they do not suffer from bandwidth contention from less critical applications and Internet traffic (e.g., non-critical Web browsing, large FTP file transfers, and P2P uploading/downloading of digital music files). A policy-based quality of service (QoS) solution can ensure that your mission-critical applications receive the bandwidth they require.
 

Bandwidth Management System Solution

The Bandwidth Management System allows you to guarantee the performance of your business-critical applications by grouping and defining policies that will classify traffic into categories such as "Mission-Critical Accounting Application" or "Time-Sensitive Videoconference". During peak traffic periods, the Bandwidth Management System maintains application performance by limiting the bandwidth available for non-critical applications and diverting these networking resources to the more critical traffic. The Bandwidth Management System enables you to control important network resources such as bandwidth, servers, applications and users. It will also monitor and record traffic usage information based on clients, servers, and application.

 

Bandwidth Management System and ROI: An Example

Bandwidth Management System is a better investment than adding WAN services or other networking hardware. For example, instead of upgrading your India-US WAN link from 128 Kbps to 256 Kbps, you could purchase Bandwidth Management System and allocate 50% of the link for mission-critical SAP traffic while limiting AudioGalaxy or some FTP download to no more than 10%. Not only would you increase application performance, but also the Bandwidth Management System would quickly pay for itself!

Benefits of Bandwidth Management System

Eliminate the reason as network being the source of performance issues.

Quickly fix performance of critical applications by ensuring that bandwidth resources are allocated appropriately.

Stop the cycle of bandwidth upgrades -- reclaim bandwidth by controlling recreational and malicious traffic and preventing inefficient networks.

Control network congestion, traffic latency, and application response times (overcomes queuing deficiencies in routers and other devices).

  

  Before Bandwidth Management System

 

 After Bandwidth Management System