ET/BWMGR - Bandwidth Manager

ET/BWMGR Features:

Following are some of the more noteworthy features of the ET/BWMGR.

• Comprehensive HTML Management Interface (GUI)
• Bi-directional Bandwidth Limiting and Allocation
• Multi-port Bandwidth Managment at full gigabit speeds
• Unlimited Sessions or Policies (limited by CPU power only)
• Integrated System Monitor (analyze network activity, see most-used IPs or MAC, Protocol Analysis, etc.)
• Integrated Firewall Function
• Compression
• Multi-Speed Bridging on Any Number of Ethernet Interfaces (ie bridge gigabit to multiple 100Mb/s)
• Hardware Bypass
• Manage Traffic by IP, MAC or Network Address or Protocol
• p2p Traffic Control (KaZaA, Morpheus, iMesh, AudioGalaxy, etc)
• Supports Video, Audio and VoIP Traffic Management
• Virtual Name Host Limiting and Statistical Gathering
• Reverse Limiting (dynamic policy creation based on a trigger policy)
• Balanced Reverse Limiting (Each client gets proportionate chunk of bandwidth)
• Hard Limits and Optional "Burst" Limit for Each Defined Policy
• Flexible Bursting Policy Definitions
• Automated TCP Window Shaping
• Guarantee Minimum Bandwidth
• Bandwidth Templates/Profiles Simplify Large-Scale Deployment
• Scales well to thousands of rules (no limit)
• 10 Priority Levels
• VLAN (VPN) support
• Advanced Group Functions (group ceilings, balanced groups, member overrides, nested groups)
• Interface (port) Limits
• Limit traffic in, out separately or limit total bandwidth used
• Pass-Through Priority for Local Data Streams
• Time-of-day Transitioning (implement different policies at different times of day)
• Integrated Source and Policy Routing (Use as a transparent proxy for caching, etc)
• Statistics gathering and reporting for any definable traffic type (IP, MAC, VLAN, data type)
• Monthly and Daily Bandwidth Controls (Notify and change bandwidth settings when quotas are reached)
• Allow your Customers to View Graphs of their Traffic
• Statistics-only mode ("sniffs" your LAN and gathers stats without being inline)
• Export Statistics via SNMP for any data type
• Graphing of any rule with current and historical data
• Available as a CD installation or complete Hardware Solution

Appliances Featuersk

• Full System Management Graphical Interface (HTML)
• Automated System Update/Upgrade over the Internet (paid subscription)
• Software and Database Backup Facility
• Full System-level support
• System Recovery CD
• Optional Web Caching

The ET/BWMGR includes all of the features that you would expect with the highest-end products available including a graphical interface, full-featured bandwidth management, statistical reporting, multi-level prioritization of traffic and much, much more.

Multi-Port Transparent Bridging

ET/BWMGR runs as a high-performance transparent bridge on multiple NICs, allowing it to operate as a multiport, multispeed switch. The ET/BWMGR includes advanced bridge group capabilities that allow unlimited groups to be set up to facilitate any numbering scheme you need.

The BurstManager

The ET/BWMGR has a burst management feature that allows you to grant additional bandwidth on a policy by policy basis based on overall traffic on your network. For example, you you can limit a particular IP or range of addresses to 512000bps when usage is below a defined threshold and 128000bps when usage is heavy. Burst thresholds can be flexibly applied, for example if you have a "premium" group of customers, other groups can be set to only burst when the premium group is using less that a specified amount of bandwidth. Bursting can be limited to a specific length of time, easily thwarting downloaders while providing snappy performance for browsing.

10 levels of Data Prioritization

The ET/BWMGR allows you to set 10 levels of priorities for traffic, and with multiple class grouping options you can do just about anything you want to do to manage your traffic. Prioritization along with "to the bit" bandwidth limiting allows you to allocate, limit, burst, prioritize and guarantee bandwidth with precision.

Corporate Streamlining

Not only ISPs can benefit from bandwidth management. Companies need to make sure that their critical traffic streams flow smoothly, and that database response times meet service level requirements. Imagine if you could dynamically allocate bandwidth for a critical download? Its easy with the ET/BWMGR.

Advanced Rule Indexing Increases Capacity

The ET/BWMGR implements a rule indexing technique that decreases overhead by up to 96% over linear scanning algorithms. Our powerful technology allows ET/BWMGR to manage literally tens of thousands of individual streams and classes of traffic with hardly any rule matching overhead. As far as we know, ET/BWMGR can handle more simultaneous user-defined traffic streams than any other product on the market, and is the only product that can handle complete rulesets at for multiple gigabit networks.

Customer Feedback

You can grant your customers access to the graphical output pages on ET/BWMGR by simply creating a simple access page for them. Your customers can view statistics and graphical analysis any time they want and for any period of time that is stored on the machine.

Questions?

Try reading our Bandwidth Management FAQ.

Online Manuals

Read our online manuals to get a better idea of what the ET/BWMGR is all about.

Some Examples

Still don't get it? Click here to see some practical uses of the bandwidth manager.

Related Links:

ET/BWMGR Frequently Asked Questions
ET/BWMGR Command Line Reference Manual
ET/BWMGR GUI Manual
Bandwidth Management Technology Comparision
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