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APconnections Announces Carrier Class 4.0, Latest Up Gradation to NetEqualizer

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November 04, 2009

APconnections Announces Carrier Class 4.0, Latest Up Gradation to NetEqualizer

By Jayashree Adkoli, TMCnet Contributor


Lafayette, Colo.-based APconnections, a provider of plug-and-play bandwidth shaping products, announced the availability of its latest NetEqualizer (News - Alert) software release, Carrier Class 4.0, which is capable of offering carrier-class network traffic shaping.

 
Carrier Class 4.0 is one among the many software upgrades made to the NetEqualizer traffic shaping solution.
 
Officials with APconnections said in a press release that NetEqualizer’s latest up gradation, Carrier Class 4.0, will support three times as many shaping buffers as previous NetEqualizer releases, thereby facilitating for more smoother Internet traffic shaping – even for installations with up to 40-thousand users.
 
In addition, it makes use of optimizations and other techniques to break off larger chunks of bandwidth and shape them smoothly without dropping packets with a small margin of error, thereby making the solution more affordable.
 
According to APconnections, its NetEqualizer is a plug-and-play bandwidth control and WAN/Internet optimization appliance, featuring “behavior shaping” technology. This automated traffic shaping appliance offers priority to latency-sensitive applications such as VoIP and email.
 
The NetEqualizer product family mainly optimizes critical network bandwidth resources for organizations that purchases bandwidth in bulk and then redistributes or resells that bandwidth. Internally, it examines Internet data by listening to all traffic on an Internet segment. Additionally, it keeps a small database of the activity going on over an Internet segment. Then, utilizing a set of predefined rules, it determines which users are consuming excessive bandwidth. This helps in alleviating congestion, says APconnections.
 
Moreover, the Carrier Class 4.0 not only provides support of URL-based blocking, but also offers URL shaping. With this, users will be capable of blocking a list of URLs. With this, users can set rate caps for sites such as YouTube (News - Alert) and Netflix without the invasiveness of layer-7 shaping.
 
The URL-based shaping feature of Carrier Class 4.0 will facilitate customers to add new sites without paying expensive upgrade fees.
 
“Most routers that break out chunks of bandwidth use harsh rate control methods such as dropping packets when the limit is reached,” said Art Reisman (News - Alert), CEO and co-founder of APconnections, in the press release. “The optimizations and techniques we use shape each customer smoothly without dropping packets, rivaling the quality of carrier-class shapers, yet are priced at one-tenth the list price.”
 
In addition, with the help of the latest software release, NetEqualizer will be able to automatically report any new license overruns, said officials.
 
In June, the company had released newest 3.32a software updates to the previous 2.43k version of NetEqualizer. This update included improvements in the solution’s internal disk memory caching, modification to subnet masking and support for multi-core CPU.

Jayashree Adkoli is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Jayashree's articles, please visit her columnist page.

Edited by Erin Harrison







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