iDirect/Broadband
Bandwidth management is essential in today's
fast moving communications world and it is
the bandwidth manager who has to ensure
that mission critical voice and data services
are always available on demand.
Few will deny that network reliability and
performance together play an especially important
role in the corporate world today and the ability to
manage bandwidth effectively is essential.
WWWTs integrated Bandwidth Management and
Quality of Service (QoS) solutions are developed to
meet exigent requirements of Small and Medium-
sized Enterprises, and Small and Medium-sized
Internet Service Providers. WWWT is proud to
offer a complete solution designed to monitor and
manage bandwidth for the Internet Protocol traffic
in order achieve the best performance, reliability
and security of the network this traffic passes
through.
WWWT® Sentinel bandwidth management
software is powered by highly stable and reliable
Linux operating system and incorporates an
advanced traffic engineering tool set with the goal
to build an efficient Internet Service Provider
network with exceptional performance and security.
From the hardware perspective, Sentinel is a highly
reliable server based on the x86 architecture. It has
the 1U rack-mountable form factor that is easy to
deploy into any networking environment. It comes
with pre-installed BusinessCom Networks Sentinel
PF and powerful tools to make the complex
bandwidth management tasks as easy as possible
even for network operators with little networking
experience.
Some of key features of WWWT’S® Sentinel are:
Quality of Service
Mission critical network applications
prioritizing
QoS for interactive network applications
(including VoIP, Audio and Video)
Application level (layer 7) based QoS
Bandwidth management
Accurate and powerful bandwidth shaping
Exclusive groups support
Free bandwidth sharing support
Smart Throttle engine
Acceleration and caching
BusinessCom® PEP acceleration
(Performance Enhancing Proxy)
Cache engine for bandwidth saving, delays
and response time minimizing
Caching DNS
Application level traffic inspection
Security: Firewall, Filtering, NIDS
Network subscribers' authentication
Extensive Network Monitoring
Routing, Network Address Translation (NAT),
DHCP, E-mail reports
Web Administration Panel, Terminal Access
support
Increased backbone bandwidth utilization
efficiency with guaranteed Quality of Service for
the subscribers. The QoS mechanisms of Sentinel
ensure that your enterprise customers receive the
appropriate quality of Internet access service and
that everybody in the network receives a fair share
of bandwidth. Using the Sentinel rate limiting and
shaping tools you are able to prioritize network
bandwidth to support critical applications, prevent
power users from abusing the bandwidth, and
preventing your network from being overloaded
with malicious traffic such as viruses, floods and
Peer to Peer applications. This is especially
appreciated when expensive satellite Internet
backbone bandwidth is used. The Bandwidth
shaping and Throttle engine improves efficiency
of broadband resource utilization helping to
deliver cost-effective and high-quality service for
end user and profitable and optimized network
service for the ISP.
Bandwidth Management
Services
Sentinel QoS and bandwidth
management software
Acceleration and Compression
Up to 400% boost on the web browsing and file
downloads both on uplink and downlink
compared to a standard non-accelerated service.
A common work day of Internet access results in
approximately 1 to 5 inbound/outbound traffic
ratio, caused by TCP acknowledgments and
requests sent to the Internet servers. PEP allows
users to save up to 90% on the outbound circuit
traffic that eliminates sluggish response
time and speeds up web page downloads even in
a highly congested uplink circuit - a 96 bits per
second uplink is sufficient to fill in a smooth
1 megabit per second downlink rate. WWWT
Firewall
Secures the network. The Sentinel firewall allows
system administrators to sleep well at nights while it
protects your network from outside attacks. Easy to set
up filtering and authentication mechanisms prevent
unauthorized access to your network.
The built-in Network Intrusion Detection System
provides detailed statistics on the health of your
subscriber base PCs and potential threats to your
system's security and performance. This allows network
administrators to react promptly to eliminate the threat
Extensive Monitoring
More control for network administrators. At any
time of day or night the network operator or
administrator may log in to the web
administration panel running on Sentinel to check
the network uptime, health and obtain detailed
statistics of the network usage. Real time
network throughput monitoring is available.