Traffic congestion on a network can impact performance of latency-sensitive, mission critical applications. To optimally use your WAN bandwidth and get more performance from it, you can take control of application performance and bandwidth consumption by implementing bandwidth management products such as Packeteer’s PacketShaper or Net Enforcer from Allot. These are application-intelligent traffic monitoring appliances that provide visibility into network utilization and application performance.
They can identify how WAN and the Internet resources are consumed, what causes performance problems and provide a path to fix those problems. By prioritizing bandwidth according to the real needs of your users, they will have more predictable response to all transactions.The optimization effect of prioritizations like this allows network administrators to make sure that certain traffic gets through an existing pipe before other traffic.
By doing this, a company can avoid the add-more-bandwidth technique that it might normally respond with when performance-sensitive applications suffer due to network congestion. The end result is highly optimized traffic and a fast return on investment when compared to brute force methods such as adding more expensive bandwidth or compression appliances that treat all traffic the same.