South African organizations, unlike organizations in many developed markets, have severe constraints when going online. Infrastructure and Internet bandwidth are extremely scarce commodities and therefore expensive. Despite these fiscal and logistical constraints businesses are realizing the substantial benefits that Internet enablement can offer.

Companies typically find, once internet enablement has been accepted, bandwidth requirements quickly outstrip supply. When traffic exceeds available bandwidth, just one greedy application can saturate the Internet link. High volume traffic can easily starve other applications or services, preventing important tasks from being completed.

The solution most often implemented, is to upgrade the bandwidth at a substantial ongoing cost to the organisation.

Most networks don't actually need additional bandwidth, but rather a means to manage their existing bandwidth efficiently.

Do You Manage Your Bandwidth?

TC Bandwidth Manager is a platform for Internet services delivery that prioritizes network traffic to ensure good response times. It classifies Internet traffic into customer defined categories thereby providing better service for selected network traffic. Bandwidth is increased for critical traffic and reduced for non-critical traffic.

Get More out of your Existing Bandwidth

The most important reason to use a bandwidth management product is that you will get more out of your existing bandwidth without having to purchase more. Without a bandwidth manager your data is random; first come first serve.

The role of bandwidth management and traffic shaping is to protect and manage the data link traffic and achieve optimum Internet performance.

Without TC Bandwidth Manager, Internet traffic floods the internet link in the order in which it is received. If a low priority file transfer is dominating the link, the mission-critical traffic will have to trickle through until such time as more bandwidth becomes available. However, once installed, TC Bandwidth Manager ensures the situation is reversed. The low priority file transfer will dynamically be throttled back and maximum performance for the mission critical revenue generating traffic will be given.

TC Bandwidth Manager can classify the traffic according to application/service, or a combination of application/service and user. It then prioritizes the traffic and the high-priority applications receive immediate access to the network while non-productive traffic is assigned a lower priority. This ensures a smooth and consistent flow across the network even in the most congested times.

TC Bandwidth Manager enables network administrators to reserve bandwidth for high-priority individuals, services or specific applications. For example, bandwidth resources can be allocated to ensure that online payment services are always available to the organization's financial staff.

In addition, TC Bandwidth Manager is affordable and fully scalable, growing as your organizational and bandwidth management needs grow.

TC Bandwidth Manager is flexible and easy to install.