Bandwidth Management
and Optimization
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Fusion 200

Features

• Delivers Unified Communications Solutions (voice, video, data) in a single device for offices with up to 150 employees

• Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Gateway for enhanced telephony, service control, and survivability

• Secure broadband access for small businesses or branch offices

• Integrated 4-port Fast Ethernet LAN switch with either Ethernet or ADSL WAN interface

• Robust security services including Stateful Firewall, VPN, Intrusion Detection System (IDS), and Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)

• Market leading application-aware QoS (GoS) based on user priority, differentiated services, and enforced through the control of bandwidth, loss, and delay for each traffic type

• Real-time voice and data quality monitoring together with remote management through an intuitive, web-based Graphic User Interface (GUI), Command Line Interface (CLI), and 3rd party SNMP-based
  network monitoring applications

Description

The LAN/WAN boundary is a severe congestion point in today�s IP networks. The disparity between available WAN bandwidth and network loading on the LAN causes most end-to-end quality degradation to be concentrated at the access point between these networks. End-to-end quality for VoIP and video conferencing over IP is a game that is won or lost at these choke points. Best of class QoS, such as U4EA�s GoS (Guarantee of Service), is needed in the Business Gateway to ensure that mission-critical real-time applications function reliably and with high quality. While both voice and video are sensitive to delay, they have differing packet loss and bandwidth needs. Running these applications together over a converged IP network, therefore, requires a new approach to
application prioritization. The future-proof nature of U4EA�s GoS, with multiple quality classes, guarantees the best voice, video, and data convergence and delivery. Traditional QoS mechanisms are not well designed for convergence and fail as they can only prioritize a single application over the rest of the network traffic. GoS goes beyond simple prioritization, simultaneously controlling both loss and delay requirements ensuring QoS for every application.

GoSTM Highlights
 

• Automatically detects and correctly prioritizes VoIP and Video traffic

• Delivers an advanced packet scheduling mechanism designed for convergence

• Provides true Quality of Service for multi-media applications

• Delivers efficient utilization of bandwidth (unlike other approaches, GoS fills 100% of the link while enforcing QoS)

• Ensures real-time traffic without requiring over-provisioning

• Guarantees application performance, even under network saturation

• Provides easy configuration (no complicated guesswork to find the right configuration)

• Ensures reliable carrier-class voice

Key Benefits

• For Service Providers
  
   

• Network simplicity through
  integration of multiple network
  elements

• Simplicity of implementation with
  reference architecture

• Control and delivery of service level
  agreement

• New revenue from value-added
  services like fixed/mobile
  convergence, SIP conferencing, VPN/
  Security, IT management services

• Low cost solution with reduced
  capital and operational costs

• For Small Businesses
  
   

• Network simplicity through
  integration of multiple network
  elements

• Improved network performance and
  reliability

• Reduced business risk
  Operational cost savings

• Access to external resources for
  expertise & new technology

• Freed up resources for core
  competencies

• Avoidance of risk for capital or longterm investments

• Fixed expenditure over a contracted
  period of time

• Consistency and flexibility across
  multiple locations

• Single point of contact for accountability