Education
Educational institutions face enormous pressure to deliver consistent network performance
to meet the diverse needs of students, faculty and researchers. Students and educators
alike are accessing bandwidth-intensive online applications and rich media like
videos and podcasts for educational purposes. Institutions must also deal with ever-increasing
recreational (and potentially illegal) traffic that threatens to overrun the network
including P2P file sharing and social networking applications.
With Exinda, educational
institutions gain visibility into the types of traffic and traffic volume on the
network – even encrypted applications like BitTorrent. With a clear view of the
top inbound and outbound applications, institutions can allocate more bandwidth
to high-priority applications while minimizing the bandwidth allocated to recreational
traffic. By providing control over network usage down to the individual
user level, Exinda helps educational institutions conserve bandwidth and guarantee
performance for educational and administrative traffic.
Key Features and Benefits
- Gain visibility into traffic types and volumes and allocate bandwidth accordingly
- Identify and control recreational peer-to-peer traffic including BitTorrent
- Facilitate recreational traffic without compromising high-priority applications
- Control bandwidth utilization without placing heavy-handed restrictions on users
- Demonstrate compliance with Higher Education Opportunity Act (US Only)
- Fairly share bandwidth among students, faculty, administrative staff and researchers