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Universities and Colleges

Use the Anagran FR-1000 to

  1. Precisely control the volume of all P2P traffic
  2. Protect and enable distance learning, broadcast video, VoIP, and key interactive applications

For universities and colleges, rampant P2P file sharing is devouring network capacity and hindering the delivery of key applications.  The Anagran FR-1000 is the only traffic manager that manages every flow, including all P2P flows, based on its expected and displayed behavior.  Unlike DPI-based products, the FR-1000 is impervious to the common tricks used to disguise P2P traffic including encryption and “port hopping”. Application-, protocol-, and format-agnostic, the FR-1000 easily catches and manages all P2P traffic to protect your key applications for assured QoS regardless of how many P2P users are active in your network.  And since it scales from under 10 Mbits to over 40 Gbps in a single 1RU chassis, it easily and economically addresses the traffic management needs in the most demanding high-speed networks, including LambdaRail and Internet2.

Download the University and College Application Brief

Service Providers

Use the Anagran FR-1000 to

  1. Precisely control the volume of all invasive, capacity-hungry traffic including P2P
  2. Ensure equal network capacity for all users subscribing to the same service levels, all the time
  3. Economically provide tiered value-added services while honoring corresponding SLAs
  4. Provide full insight and billable flow data record audit for every flow or any meaningful subset

To increase profitability, service providers need to enrich their service offerings with new billable differentiating services while at the same time make the network itself much more efficient and effective at delivering key value-added services.  By protecting and ensuring perfect quality for all key applications like VoIP, video-on-demand, and streaming video; and by allowing these services to cost-effectively co-reside with legacy data applications over a single network, service providers can instantly increase profit margins while avoiding costly and disruptive network build-out.  Armed with network capacity now available for new services without extra build-out, service providers can tune their services and traffic mix to the needs of their subscribers, without worrying about the next wave of invasive traffic that might consume bandwidth that should be available for everyone.  By managing the rate of every flow as necessary, Anagran ensures “equal user capacity for equal pay”, without using invasive DPI technology that not only discriminates against specific users, but also invades privacy.

With keen insight into every flow, Anagran produces Netflow records and network visibility reports based on complete flows rather than packet data samples for unsurpassed precision and scalability.  For the first time, service providers can produce flow data records (FDRs) just like the call data records (CDRs) that have been common for voice networks over most of the past half-century.

Download the Service Provider Application Brief

Distributed Storage

Use the Anagran FR-1000 to

  1. Ensure real-time storage synchronization across any part of the network at any time
  2. Allow all bulk storage backup operations to run as simple background tasks at any time
  3. Protect synchronization transactions from other traffic while ensuring all other key applications provide required QoS/QoE, even during bulk backup operations

As data centers consolidate and enterprise storage volumes continue to grow, the need to ensure absolute real-time synchronization along with efficient and non-intrusive bulk backup operations becomes more critical.  Many companies simply buy more capacity, bigger routers, or even configure totally separate dedicated links for their distributed storage.  This recurring and excessive network build-out has become common practice for many companies who cannot risk having their critical synchronization updates impeded, or for their bulk backup operations to affect the quality of their key real-time business applications.  It is often reluctantly considered “the cost of doing business”.

Not any more.  With Anagran, real-time synchronization updates get their required network resources all the time, and bulk backups can occur any time of the day as an ongoing background task, regardless of which other applications may be running at any time – on one single converged network.  Since the FR-1000 product scales from less than 10 Mbps to over 40 Gbps, it can provide the perfect storage traffic management solution for any converged network.  Immediate cost savings result, along with the confidence to roll out new applications without worrying about their impact on the network.  For the first time, storage backup and synchronization can peacefully and economically co-exist with all other applications on one network.  And that is a network that will require much less incremental build-out going forward.

Equipment / Backhaul Savings

Use the Anagran FR-1000 to

  1. Maintain extremely high link utilization without adding delay, all the time
  2. Eliminate over-charges caused by traffic surges
  3. Add new services and applications onto your existing network with confidence, and without requiring additional network capacity or router upgrades

Service providers and enterprises need to maintain profit margins even when revenue may be impacted by a slowing economy.  Control of the bottom line can often result from control of your top-line network bandwidth and equipment needs.  Anagran’s FR-1000 traffic manager allows any mix of network traffic to consume up to 95% of your network capacity, or any other high-water mark you desire, without letting any of your traffic exceed that key threshold.  The result is consistently high utilization of your WAN without the added cost that comes with exceeding any service-defined usage thresholds.

In addition to getting the absolute highest utility from your existing network, Anagran also allows you to preserve your current router investment by protecting your routers from overload caused by excessive output buffer queuing.  Acting as a natural “shock absorber” for your routers, the Anagran FR-1000 extends the useful life of these key investments while sharply slowing the costly cycle of router upgrades that result from inevitable network traffic growth.  Not only can you get control of your network traffic, you also get control of your network costs.

Video Distribution, Conferencing, & HD Telepresence

Use the Anagran FR-1000 to

  1. Ensure perfect delivery of video, in all its forms, all the time
  2. Allow video, even HD Telepresence, to co-reside with all your other applications on one network
  3. Protect the quality of video, and all your other key applications, all the time regardless of the dynamics of your traffic mix

Video conferencing and HD telepresence constitute a viable alternative to travel, and can save vast amounts of money.  This fact is given heightened emphasis during periods of accelerated cost savings.

By preserving the quality of video regardless of what other applications that may contend with it, without requiring separate links or extra network capacity, Anagran advances the goals of cost savings combined with high application performance.  Since the need for more network capacity is avoided, video conferencing and even HD telepresence become much more practical, since network disruption is also minimized.  By simply inserting an FR-1000 next to an existing router, you can immediately make your network “video ready”.  Anagran ensures that video quality is always perfect with its optional call admission control (CAC) feature, while at the same time all other applications on the converged network deliver their required QoS/QoE.  Anagran removes the single biggest deterrent to video conferencing – the leap in monthly cost for extra network capacity.