NetEqualizer appliances are bandwidth shaping systems designed for voice and data networks. The flexible, scalable and cost-effective bandwidth control products can be deployed in both corporate and service provider networks. NetEqualizer is plug-and-play, installing in minutes. NetEqualizer appliances automatically shape traffic based on built-in fairness rules. This approach allows network administrators and operators to quickly and easily bring network traffic into balance without having to build and manage extensive policy libraries and with no changes to existing network infrastructure.
Hotels and restaurants are increasingly offering free wireless Internet access to their customers. Our tests of the NetEqualizer DataShaper have shown us that this product is ideal for controlling bandwidth costs and ensuring quality services. NetEqualizer should be an essential piece of gear.
Saad Khan
Head of IT Department
IHTTI School of Hotel Management
Switzerland
NetEqualizer's built-in rules-based, application-level traffic-shaping technology dynamically controls traffic based on current network usage. When the network is congested, the fairness algorithm favors business class applications, including VoIP, Web browsing, chat and email, at the expense of large file downloads. This approach allows network managers and operators to maintain high levels of customer satisfaction without having to purchase additional bandwidth.
All settings can be changed in real-time, with no affect on network service quality. In addition, NetEqualizer enables the ability to give priority to traffic for hosts that are not to be shaped. For organizations requiring 100% network uptime, the NetEqualizer architecture enables customers to build a redundant configuration by configuring two NetEqualizer running in parallel.
For voice customers, NetEqualizer has the ability to provide priority for all major IP PBX products.
NetEqualizer is available in a range of configurations from 2Mbps up to 300Mbps
Features
Bandwidth Limiting
NetEqualizer provides bandwidth limiting features by:
Fairness, favors bandwidth for web browsing, chat and e-mail
Host, (supports up to 4000 individual hard limits)
Subnet
MAC address
Port
VLAN
NetEqualizer provides turn key control and containment for all common P2P applications such as: (this is only a subset)
Bearshare
live365
counterstrike
Morpheus
ftp
Musicmatch
Gnucleus
Phex
GnucleusLAN
POP3
IMAP GNUTELLA
SMTP
KAZAA
Swapper
LimeWire
XoloX
Reporting
NetEqualizer offers key reporting features, including the ability to view traffic by: (this is only a few of the reporting categories)
Application type
Host
Port
Calea Probe
NetEqualizer is capable of packet capturing and forwarding.
Firewall Capabilities
For customers who would like to extend the capabilities of NetEqualizer, APconnections offers full firewall capabilities based on the IPtables and EBtables set of utilities.
Connection Limits
Connection limits allow customers to protect their networks from malicious activities, including worms that can hijack computers and quickly overwhelm networks with traffic storms. With a single command, a system-wide connection limit can be set that applies to all hosts, external or internal to the network. If any host starts sending large numbers of messages, it will automatically be contained before causing a wide scale brownout.
