NETEQUALIZER NEWSLETTER, 2007 PRICING, SNMP TIPS AND MUCH MORE!

 In the December Edition:

 1) Fresh Start Contest
 2) More Power, New Model
 3) Olympic Success
 4) Network World Article
 5) Two Tips

NEW Year "Fresh Start" Contest

The New Year is the time to live up to those old resolutions, plus try some new things you haven't tried before. We'd like to help you to start out the year “fresh” helping provide the means to go somewhere you haven't been.

First prize winner of our “Fresh Start” contest will receive two round trip tickets for domestic air travel with Frontier Airlines.

Two runners-up will each receive a $100 gift certificate to CompUSA to be used in any of their stores in 45 of the United States.

To enter, answer this question:

Tell us from whom you purchased your Access Points, and give your opinion as to whether we should about should we partner and distribute our Air Equalizer technology with that company?

Send your answers to admin@apconnections.net. Put "Contest" in the subject line and you will be entered to win. The contest deadline is 5pm MST, Friday, February 2, 2007. The winner will be announced in the February NetEqualizer newsletter. Note: runners-up will not be notified, they must read their name in the newsletter and contact us within 14 days of its email date.

PRICE CHANGES

There will be a new pricing structure for the NetEqualizer line in 2007. We will no longer make the NetEqualizer 500 generally available. But we’re adding more power than ever in the form of the NE3000 series.

See the full price list here:
http://www.netequalizer.com/neteqpricelist2007.php

The NE1000-2 thru NE1000-10, as you’ve come to know and rely on them, can handle up to 5000 users. Upgrades are easy. If you have the 1000 series NetEqualizer, you do not need to buy a new appliance to get a more powerful unit. It’s just a change in software. The prices for the upgrades are just the differences in list prices of the units.

Introducing the new NetEqualizer 3000-250. This is our most powerful unit. It handles up to 8000 users and up to 250 Mbps. Wow.

This is not upgradeable by software. To upgrade to this unit from the 1000 series means to purchase new and different hardware.

Olympic Success

Believe it or not we are indirectly supporting the US Olympic Team. USA Cycling, which is the governing body for cycling in the Olympics, became a customer this year. Their website and their network were getting full from streaming video (usually sporting events) and large downloads (coaching manuals, among other things). They host their own website and with 60,000 members they were getting a million page views per month. But the Olympics is all about quality and being prepared. They sought out NetEqualizer and found it to be gold.

“We plugged it in, changed the IP address, and configured it for the two T1s and right away you could see it was adding bandwidth. We have seen it put in that penalty,” said Bill Griffin. “We’ve had no problems, no complaints.”

Congratulations to Jennie Reed, and the rest of the Cycling Team that competed in November in Australia!

Success Stories: Network World gives nod to NetEqualizer

Read the article by Denise Dubie in Network World. http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/accel/2006/1106netop2.html

TWO Tips and Tricks for the Power User

Penalty Tally

Many times we are asked to tally PENALTIES for a particular user. Here is a script to do just that:

#!/bin/sh
count=0
count2=0
while read a
do
echo $a | grep PENALTY | grep IP > /dev/null
if [ "$?" = 0 ]
then
count=`expr $count + 1`
echo PENALTY total for IP $1 count = $count
fi
done

Save this script off in a file named pencount in /art directory

To run this script login to the shell

cat /tmp/arblog | /art/pencount x.x.x.x

Where x.x.x.x is the IP address you wish to count Penalties for.

SNMP traps...

Did you know it was possible to have the NetEqualizer send traps to your SNMP management station?

The first part of this Tip we'll provide you with the basic Perl Code to set up an SNMP trap, in part two next month we'll provide an example on how to trap on these two conditions:

1) Disk Space low warning
2) Customer exceeding bandwidth threshold (you set)

You can get the library files and code from this link.

Disclaimer: Tips and Tricks are for experienced programmers, if you would like consulting help implementing these tips or other customizations we would be glad to put you in touch with a qualified system integrator.

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, and Happy New Year!

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