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THREE UNIVERSITIES PURCHASE ANAGRAN PRODUCTS TO ADDRESS BOOM IN P2P TRAFFIC GROWTH

 

Anagran FR-1000 Chosen to Manage Rise in P2P File Sharing and Protect Key Applications on Campus Networks

 

Sunnyvale, Calif. – June 8, 2009,  – Anagran, Inc., the leading provider of high capacity network traffic management products, today announced that the University of Denver, Westminster College and one of the largest universities in California have selected the company’s flow-based traffic management products to control rapidly growing volumes of P2P traffic while ensuring performance and quality of essential applications.  The FR-1000 devices are set to instantly control any form of P2P traffic so all key administrative and learning applications can deliver required performance, both on and off campus.

 

At college campuses there is need for a cost-effective platform that can scale smoothly as P2P traffic volumes have skyrocketed.  Alternative deep packet inspection (DPI)-based solutions do not recognize sufficient P2P traffic to adequately control their problem. The FR-1000 employs real-time behavioral flow analysis techniques to manage traffic, and therefore cannot be fooled by encryption or other “intelligent” means used to masquerade P2P traffic.  This immunity from the many popular methods which thwart DPI’s effectiveness, along with the product’s massive scalability in a 1RU platform, proved to be a key decision factor. The Anagran FR-1000 also provides an important cost benefit.

 

As shown in the data recorded on-site at one of the universities, there was considerable undetected P2P traffic before the Anagran system started to control it and a small controlled amount thereafter.  This also lets the normal traffic increase substantially.

 

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At Westminster College, in New Wilmington, PA, a brief lab testing period revealed that the FR-1000 instantly detected and controlled all invasive P2P traffic, including all encrypted P2P.

 

“From our testing of the FR-1000, it’s ability to recognize any form of P2P and manage any mix and volume of traffic is superb,” said Don Goodlin, senior engineer and manager of the Network Infrastructure and Telecommunications division at Westminster College. “Anagran’s product is now a key part of our ongoing network architecture and I expect continued exceptional results. I feel that the FR-1000 can find a place in any network. It is that good.”

 

Anagran designs and produces high capacity flow management products that can manage the rate of every flow to enable flawless delivery of rich media applications such as streaming video and video-on-demand over converged IP networks.  By protecting key network traffic from other forms of “invasive,” capacity-hungry applications such as P2P, the FR-1000 Flow Manager allows video, voice and other multimedia traffic to sustain required performance levels even during periods of extremely high “busy hour” network activity.  For universities and colleges that means key administrative and learning applications run without flaw even during surges in P2P usage.

 

To effectively curb the rapid P2P growth while maintaining required performance for its key remote distance and on-campus application traffic, Westminster’s IT staff originally deployed a popular appliance that uses DPI-based techniques. While fairly effective initially, large amounts of undetected P2P traffic rendered that solution cost-prohibitive, especially when attempting to scale beyond 500 Mbps of processing capacity.  For the GigE-based campus network, this cost performance ceiling created an operational and budget crisis.  And even worse, the device was not able to detect all P2P traffic, since much of it was encrypted.

 

“The FR-1000 is the only product on the market that economically and effectively scales to ease the impact of P2P and other invasive traffic on networks, especially in universities and colleges where student file sharing is rampant,” said Dr. Lawrence Roberts, Founder and CEO of Anagran.  “And it easily surpasses the precision and performance limitations that are now limiting DPI-based network devices, without invading anyone’s privacy.  The growth of bandwidth-intensive traffic has been a major problem for college networks for some time and will only increase with the adoption of emerging technologies such as super hi-def television.  I am confident that we have found the solution to accommodate this traffic today and into the future.”

 

About Anagran

Anagran was founded by Internet pioneer Dr. Larry Roberts, recognized as one of the founding fathers of the Internet.  Anagran’s flow-based traffic management products eliminate the potentially crippling effects of network congestion to enable video, voice, data and wireless traffic to economically scale with flawless quality over converged IP networks.  Anagran’s FR-1000 protects all key network traffic by managing end-to-end flows based on their behavior to ensure required quality and performance levels. The FR-1000 dynamically manages all network traffic regardless of application, protocol, or format, without using invasive, performance-limiting deep packet inspection (DPI) techniques.  Service providers and enterprises can consistently deliver the highest levels of guaranteed performance and quality while significantly reducing capital equipment and recurring network costs.  Information about Anagran can be found at www.anagran.com.

 

 

Julie Karbo                                                                    Katie Carlson

K/F Communications for Anagran                                    K/F Communications

(415)255-6505                                                                (415) 255-6511

julie@kfcomm.com                                                        katie@kfcomm.com