Bandwidth Management overview
Bandwidth management is high priority and an important part of any IT teams strategy, in today’s climate ensuring network bandwidth is meeting the demands of the business is paramount. Traditionally, unless businesses wished to make costly investments into traffic prioritisation infrastructure, bandwidth allocation and management was virtually impossible to achieve to any detailed level, it was somewhat pot luck how traffic was routed across the network. With growing network demands through new applications, time critical applications, more demanding users and the need for flexibility to cater for remote workers and new sites being added, it is important that bandwidth is managed to ensure maximum possible performance, quality and efficiency. Bandwidth Management is a solution that does not increase bandwidth but allows you to control how you bandwidth is used, through applying specific policies to traffic, applications, destination and source addresses on the network you can control and optimise how your network.
Addressing business needs
With network infrastructures supporting multiple users, applications, and sites, managing efficiency and optimising usage can be a challenge. The more varied the traffic mix, the greater the need to control resources, with Xrio UBM Bandwidth Management you can control how your bandwidth is managed and overcome typical network constraints:
- Network Congestion - The use of multiple users or heavy usage of bandwidth-hungry applications can create network congestion and slow performance. Xrio UBM Bandwidth Management allows you to establish bandwidth priorities based on source, destination, service or application and allocate specific bandwidth levels.
- Insufficient bandwidth for critical applications - With a mix of critical and non-critical traffic sharing the same bandwidth, and peak data rates and bursts in network traffic, there is a need to guarantee performance of mission critical applications. Xrio UBM Bandwidth Management policies can be configured to provide critical applications with higher bandwidth availability and priority.
- Delays and Latency - Real-time applications such as VoIP are bandwidth and time sensitive, and can be affected by problems such as latency, jitter and packet loss. UBM Bandwidth Management ensures business and bandwidth-critical application have traffic priority through dedicated bandwidth to guarantee consistent performance.
- Bandwidth being choked - Some bandwidth-hungry applications (i.e. downloading large files, video sharing, etc.) can impact more critical users and applications on the network. Xrio UBM Bandwidth Management policies can ensure bandwidth availability for critical users and increase response time of critical applications (e.g. VoIP).
Making the most of your investment
With an Xrio UBM solution you can ensure you are utilising your network to suit the exact needs of your business and therefore ensure your networking spend is providing you with your specific requirements. With an increase in overall Internet and network usage and online applications, bandwidth is essential to an organisations operations and productivity, working with a UBM solution maximises your bandwidth productivity. Using Xrio UBM Bandwidth management tools enables you to guarantee uptime and performance for your network, whilst providing consistency of quality for real-time applications such as VoIP to ensure a higher Return-On-Investment.
UBM the solution of choice
Xrio UBM integrates Bandwidth Management technology, to provide a comprehensive solution for managing your WAN/VPN traffic, applications, end users, bandwidth capacity and Internet access. UBM Bandwidth Management is designed to improve service of selected network traffic over various network technologies, including DSL, Leased Lines, IP-VPN and MPLS, etc.
UBM provides easy, yet highly intelligent bandwidth management through it’s browser-based user interface - UBM Manager. UBM Manager provides real-time graphical monitoring to enable you to respond quicker to network changes. UBM Manager provides continuous, bandwidth status monitoring, allows you to fine tune your bandwidth policies throughout your network, and set up reporting and alerting for better service management. With Xrio UBM’s integrated solutions, Bandwidth Management can be applied to UBM’s Link Load Balancing and Circuit Bonding solutions.
Want to know more?
At Xrio we understand the needs of the business and appreciate the flexibility and functionality needed from a business network that’s why we know our product is the most comprehensive, flexible unified bandwidth management devices on the market, we are so confident in our products you are free to take our NO risk UBM trial and see for yourself or if you need any further information call us on 0845 644 3226 or email sales@xrio.com .....making the most of your network, now!
Xrio UBM features the following solutions for efficient bandwidth management:
Policy Based Routing - Dedicate bandwidth to specific services, e.g. Voice and video on a high bandwidth and e-mail over a low bandwidth connection.
Quality of Service (QoS) - Reduce data packet delay and jitter through tailoring traffic routing according to your requirements for priority and time-sensitive applications, e.g. VoIP.