Traffic Shaping Solutions

Traffic shaping provides a mechanism to control the volume of traffic being sent into a network (bandwidth throttling), and the rate at which the traffic is being sent (rate limiting).

As a result, schemes for traffic shaping commonly are implemented at the edges of the network, to control traffic entering the network. Control such as this can be achieved in several ways, and also for many reasons, however traffic shaping always consists of delaying packets.

Traffic policing is a related practice consisting of packet marking and dropping. Traffic shaping can be applied by an element in the network, or by the source of the traffic (eg: computer or network card).

Traffic Shaping and Prioritization is becoming more and more common for businesses. Many companies with offices that are remote, are connected via a Wide Area Network (WAN). Applications generally tend to be hosted at the head office and the remote offices are expected to pull data from those central databases. As various applications have become more "bandwidth-hungry" and prices of dedicated circuits being relatively high in most areas of the world, many companies feel the need to properly manage their circuits instead of increasing the size of their WAN circuits.

Therefore, traffic shaping is a very good way for these companies to avoid buying additional bandwidth, during management of these resources.

A10 Networks EX Series Load Balancers

A10 Networks' EX Series is the industry's only bandwidth management appliance with identity-based application visibility. By managing bandwidth and traffic with unprecedented user and application visibility, the EX Series helps organizations of all sizes secure, optimize and scale their network edge and perimeter. By consolidating multiple WAN bandwidth management functions into one optimized management platform, organizations can greatly simplify their management of edge services, and increase performance and reliability for applications.

• Instant Application and User Visiblity
  • Identity-based Application Visibility
  • Bandwidth Reports with Identity
• Quality of Service
  • Bandwidth Manager (QoS)
  • Compression (site-to-site)
• Load Balancing
  • Link Load Balancing
  • Firewall Load Balancing
• Security, Scalability and Reliability
  • Network IPS
  • Performance
  • Flexible Deployment Options
  • Simplified Management
  • High Availability

XRoads Networks EdgeXL Traffic Manager

The ability to control network traffic through shaping translates to lower costs and happier end-users. The EdgeXL appliance accelerates the performance of business-critical applications through Quality of Service (QoS) prioritization and policy-based traffic management.

The EdgeXL series of traffic managers features Policy Shaping, Application Shaping, P2P / IM Control, and VoIP Optimization.