Satellite Systems

Foundation Telecommunications is a satellite based telecommunications services company serving broadcast, cable, business, government, and education clients in the U.S. and around the world. Among other customers, they market to a lot of ISPs where T-1s and larger pipes are not available.

Lamar Bostic is based in the Rogers, Arkansas office. He manages the network., Bostic says he has experienced the same problems as other ISPs - clogged networks. "Sometimes there's thousands of connections from one PC, bringing the system to a crawl and degrading the service to subscribers."

"We tried various software solutions and some other hardware solutions all to varying success and cost," said Bostic.

Then he found the NetEqualizer.

"I decided to place them at the ISP site instead of the hub. If we control the traffic at the source, or have the ISP control their own traffic, it's more efficient use. That way the disallowed traffic is being kept off that uplink portion, making more bandwidth available," said Bostic.

It's worked so well, he's made the NetEqualizer part of his business. "We have made the NetEqualizer a required device for all our new clients. And we're promoting NetEqualizer in all our existing ISP sites."

"Operators like them. It takes the pressure off them. There have been absolutely no subscriber complaints. They're certainly perceiving no degradation & probably seeing an improvement. There's nothing to manage on a day-to-day basis, nothing to fiddle with."

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