WAN Bandwidth Control

Vendor Partnerships -

  • Blue Coat Systems
  • Cymphonix

    • Starnet represents 2 industry leading vendors that help enterprise customers control precious WAN bandwidth.

    Most enterprises today are highly dependent on their internet connection(s)

    Unfortunately there are many factors that inhibit enterprises from being able to efficiently use their WAN bandwidth for authorized uses.

    Many of these factors involve employees engaging in unauthorized activities which not only impact an organizations operational efficiency, but also pose security threats.

    Being able to apply controls to the use of WAN bandwidth is an important element in insuring optimal WAN efficiency and security.

    Blue Coat Systems

    Starnet is an authorized BlueCoat partner and has over 9 years experience in installing and supporting Blue Coat’s PacketShaper solution.

    The PacketShaper provides unrivaled granularity in the controls it provides users. It can classify over 600 applications with deep Layer 7 packet inspection.

    Besides monitoring the WAN connection and classifying all the applications running over the connection, the PacketShaper enables highly granular QoS policies to be applied to classes that need to be controlled because of their ability to utilize large amounts of bandwidth (e.g. YouTube).

    And the PacketShaper provides for highly granular QoS policies to be applied to classes that need to be protected because of their importance to the business (SMTP, Oracle) or because of their sensitivity to latency (VoIP, Video).

    In addition to visibility and control, the PacketShaper also provides customers effective real-time and historical reporting.

    Cymphonix

    The Cymphonix composer solution combines Layer 7 packet classification and control with a robust security layer, offering customer’s a comprehensive secure web gateway solution.

    Utilizing its deep-packet Layer 7 inspection engine, the Composer provides customers a solution that scans, identifies and controls internet traffic, enabling advanced content filtering, reporting, application prioritization, bandwidth management and threat protection.

    Robust anonymous proxy protection insures that internet usage policies can be effectively enforced.