Bandwidth Management Solutions for Service Providers and Enterprise LANs

Overview

The paper describes the need of higher bandwidth. Companies are growing, adding new offices and remote sites, using technically advanced and powerful applications, and of course, Internet usage has exploded in the last decade. Local Area Networks (LANs) are in need of bandwidth. Bandwidth can be expensive, and when LANs begin to slow down because of heavier usage, more bandwidth is often added. With bandwidth being such a hot commodity, those supplying it (ISPs and other service providers) must be service oriented yet also competitive and profitable. Traffic shaping and bandwidth control can help ISPs and other service providers as well.