Network Backbone Optimization
Configuring backbone networks with massive over-capacity drains operating budgets and shrinks profit margins. Until now, it has been the only way to try to stay ahead of the persistent deluge of growing video and quad-play network traffic. With network traffic volumes doubling every year, the tactic of constantly buying more transmission capacity and router upgrades is doomed to fail. In fact, it is not unusual for network planners to assume a 4:1, 5:1, or even greater over-capacity factor in designing their networks. Invariably the same factor gets re-applied long before it was anticipated as the network traffic volume pace continues to accelerate.
Anagran offers a pragmatic approach to the network traffic volume challenge that promises to be much more agreeable with network applications and even more agreeable with network planning budgets. The FR-1000 with Intelligent Flow Discard coupled with Behavioral Traffic Control, can combine to instantly improve backbone network capacity by up to 10 times for time-critical traffic like video and voice, and can improve overall transmission capacity by 3-fold for all quad-play traffic combined. These gains are realized absent of any of the many LAN-based WAN optimization appliance products, and the newly optimized utilization levels are sustained regardless of how much more traffic attempts to enter the network.
IFD ensures that all traffic entering at the network edge is optimally groomed by flow class even during peak usage periods. BTC is able to detect, classify, and if necessary rate-limit certain types of bulk traffic like P2P to no more than certain pre-defined portions of the available throughput, thereby freeing up even more backbone network capacity for video, voice, and other time-critical traffic. Together, these two Anagran FR-1000 technologies ensure that existing network capacity is used to its utmost, while relieving the ominous financial burden of having to purchase even more capacity and networking equipment before it is truly necessary. Only Anagran, with full insight into the behavior of every flow, is capable of producing this level of sustained network-wide resource utilization at up to 96 gigabits per second per 1RU device.
