Neighbour pinching your bandwidth?
Traffic on the internet is growing faster than the net can keep up with it. In just two years, the number of video playbacks has risen from 9 to 25 billion. This can be noticed, especially in housing associations where several households share a fixed amount of bandwidth. If Joe Smith on the third floor is downloading films and the children on the second floor are playing CounterStrike, there’s nothing left for poor old Bill Brown and all the others who just want to send e-mails and surf the internet.
When the few are allocated large volumes of bandwidth at the expense of the many, the seeds of unrest are sown. Is the solution to introduce a petty bureaucracy to make sure that everyone gets just as much – or as little – bandwidth, that is no use for anything? No, the answer is intelligent bandwidth management.
SmartShare Systems WAN optimization appliances allocate bandwidth so that all residents receive just what they need, whether they want to download large files or surf. What could be fairer?
