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