Inter-branch networking headaches
Monday, September 21st, 2009
There are ways to improve speed between your branches and your core servers.
What Do you do about your WAN connection bandwidth being consumed by low-priority applications? For example, sales people are logging orders at the branches, and the ERP application is slow to respond. Do you know that streaming music or radio can consume 128kbps? If your WAN connection is 2Mbps, then each music listener consumes 6.25% of that bandwidth. It would only take 4 employees to eat up 25% of precious bandwidth, literally QR 12,000 to QR 15,000 per year!
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Streamcore’s centralized WAN application and communications delivery management offers a comprehensive set of features that is unrivalled in the industry.
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The most practical way to control the bandwidth is to prioritize the data at the branch gateway connection. By installing an appliance like the StreamGroomer, you can give higher priority to certain applications such as ERP or CRM software. The effect will be that music listeners and video watchers will get degraded performance on the music and video feeds, but the priority applications will be fast.
It might also be necessary to lower the priority of email. When users download large email messages, they should not utilize the entire bandwidth for that reason alone. The StreamGroomer can allot a smaller bandwidth to the email messaging.
If a StreamGroomer or similar appliance is installed, the resulting benefit is two-fold: (1) you get the most out of your current bandwidth (ie, increased ROI on monthly WAN connections fees), and (2) you don’t need to upgrade your WAN bandwidth to solve the problem.
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There are ways to improve speed between your branches and your core servers.
What Do you do about your WAN connection bandwidth being consumed by low-priority applications? For example, sales people are logging orders at the branches, and the ERP application is slow to respond. Do you know that streaming music or radio can consume 128kbps? If your WAN connection is 2Mbps, then each music listener consumes 6.25% of that bandwidth. It would only take 4 employees to eat up 25% of precious bandwidth, literally QR 12,000 to QR 15,000 per year!
Streamcore’s centralized WAN application and communications delivery management offers a comprehensive set of features that is unrivalled in the industry.
Download the StreamCore Product Sheet for more information.
The most practical way to control the bandwidth is to prioritize the data at the branch gateway connection. By installing an appliance like the StreamGroomer, you can give higher priority to certain applications such as ERP or CRM software. The effect will be that music listeners and video watchers will get degraded performance on the music and video feeds, but the priority applications will be fast.
It might also be necessary to lower the priority of email. When users download large email messages, they should not utilize the entire bandwidth for that reason alone. The StreamGroomer can allot a smaller bandwidth to the email messaging.
If a StreamGroomer or similar appliance is installed, the resulting benefit is two-fold: (1) you get the most out of your current bandwidth (ie, increased ROI on monthly WAN connections fees), and (2) you don’t need to upgrade your WAN bandwidth to solve the problem.
