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Bandwidth Control
Control how the Internet is used at your company.
Astaro enables users to divide their Internet bandwidth as desired. If the web server should be as responsive for customers as possible, the highest priority can be allocated to all applications. Through our control application, bandwidth can also be reserved for web traffic ahead of other requests.
Astaro’s Quality of Service setup is easy; you specify the available bandwidth you have from your ISP and let our auto-rules intelligence optimize your Internet connection. Shaping and prioritization of smaller packets is done automatically. Diving deeper, it is possible to craft specific rules which match traffic patterns or ports with bandwidth maximums and minimums. If you can dictate which applications or users are able to utilize the Internet, you control how a fixed resource is used during different conditions.
For example, you can allow the use of Bittorrent programs during the entire workday for the company at a rate of 10Mbps, but then limit Bittorrent use to only 2Mbps for a certain group or user. These types of rules can be created and managed for almost any type of traffic. With Astaro, you can make sure that the proper programs get the right priority for the Internet connection you have. If you would like your web server to always respond quickly to your customers by getting preference ahead of other traffic like a picture download from Google Images, our bandwidth control can reserve bandwidth for web traffic ahead of these other requests.
Astaro’s QoS uses a combination of prioritization and bandwidth reservation mechanisms which are based on internaet standard Differentiated Services (DiffServ) and Integrated Services (IntServ) protocols. The following functionality is offered:
- Outbound Dynamic Bandwidth Reservation (Guaranteed Minimum, Maximum Limit) Based on:
- Source/destination server or network
- Service/Port
- TOS/DSCP bits
- Pre-defined traffic selectors for IM/P2P applications
- Inbound Queuing Optimization via:
- Stochastic Fairness Queuing (SFQ)
- Random Early Detection (RED)
- Proportional bandwidth shaping
- Dynamically adapts amount of reserved bandwidth to available link speeds
- Download Equalizer
- Intelligently drops downlink packets to avoid network congestion
- Upload Optimizer
- Accelerates TCP handshake packets (SYN, ACK, …)
This feature is included within the optional Network Security subscription.
