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Features
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Benefits
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| Intelligent IP Traffic Management |
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Evaluates available bandwidth 100 times
per second
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Shapes individual and aggregate traffic
based on current conditions, immediately and non-intrusively
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Shapes traffic for up to 50,000 managed
objects - gateways, subnets, groups, and individual subscribers
- by IP address
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Enables a variety of allocation schemes
(guaranteed, preferred, equitable) for distributing bandwidth
across all subscribers during both normal and congested
conditions
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Protects against aggressive users by
allowing additional rate limits based on usage
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Manages inbound/outbound traffic separately
at each network point
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Supports multi-homed and half-duplex
networks
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Solutions available to manage bandwidth
from 1 Kbps to 155 Mbps
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Eliminates the need to provision bandwidth
to peak demands
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Greatly improves bandwidth utilization
by allowing more subscribers to be added to the network
without provisioning additional bandwidth
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Controls aggressive users and guarantees
that no user is "starved" for bandwidth
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Minimizes network congestion, reduces
packet loss, and eliminates congestion-related outages
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Guarantees the delivery of more consistent,
reliable service to subscribers, improving customer satisfaction
and reducing churn
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Enables providers to fulfill Service
Level Agreements
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Enables the simplified management of
multiple access services (i.e., narrowband and broadband
wireline, wireless, satellite, and cable) from a single,
easy-to-use graphical interface
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| Service Levels and Management |
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Defines and manages unlimited service
levels according to multiple configurable parameters
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Parameters include rate limits, access
priorities, time-of-day controls, and controls for aggressive
usage
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Enables service providers to generate
substantially more revenue from a wide range of innovative
service levels without purchasing additional bandwidth
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Provides data on subscriber usage patterns
for service up-sell opportunities
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Significantly reduces the time required
to administer service levels manually through multiple
interfaces
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| Performance Visibility |
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Maintains a 24-hour moving window of
performance data
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Displays data down to the subscriber
level for the latest 60 seconds, 60 minutes, and 24 hours
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Shows average and peak consumption and
percentage of transfer time affected by congestion
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Stores statistics in an SQL database
for historical analysis
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Provides new visibility into the network
to improve service management
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Monitors in real-time who is consuming
bandwidth, at what rate, and when
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Provides real-time 'Top 10' reports based
on up-to-the-second performance criteria
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Provides historical reports to support
capacity planning, timely provisioning, usage-based billing,
and customer and technical services
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| Autodiscovery and Configuration |
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Discovers network topology and displays
it in a familiar tree structure
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Automatically discovers new subscribers
and places them in the appropriate location in the topology
tree
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Resolves subscriber names using DNS,
RADIUS, or LDAP
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Intelligently assigns policies for governing
autodiscovered points in the topology
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Simplifies and automates configuration
and administration, reducing operational complexities
- In satellite and other one-way networks, enables Dyband
to manage traffic destined to the subscriber without seeing
both traffic directions.
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Allows fewer technicians to provision
and maintain the network
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Virtually eliminates manual configuration
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Allows network managers to audit their
customers' IP address space utilization
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| Fault Tolerance |
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| Standards-based Management |
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