Bandwidth, one of the critical resources of an organization is generally limited and a takes a big share from the IT budget of an organization. So it is very important to manage this resource, to ensure that it is used efficiently and purposefully. That is where Bandwidth Management comes into action.

Bandwidth Management is the art of monitoring, controlling and distributing the flow of data among users in such a way that it facilitates congestion-free networking environment and provides consistent, predictable and reliable flow of traffic. It is the process of measuring and controlling the communications (traffic, packets) on a network link, to avoid filling the link to capacity or overfilling the link, which would result in network congestion and poor performance.

Nebero Bandwidth Management empowers administrators to create a flexible bandwidth distribution schema for their network. Nebero is a full fledged Bandwidth Manager with all the essential components like Monitoring, Controlling and Distributing. Every component is fully customizable the way an administrator wants. It comes with innovative concepts like real time display of bandwidth statistics in the forms of graphs for better analysis and preview of whats going on the network.

Administrators have full control over the distribution of bandwidth. Total Internet Bandwidth available to an Organization can be divided into different pools, in a tree like structure. Minimum assured amount of Bandwidth can be alloted to each pool with the flexibility of configuring the Maximum bandwidth to that pool in case its lying unused in other pools. Groups are created to add users into it. A set of users placed in a group can be then associated with a default Policy (Firewall Policy) or a number of different Policies. Each Group is also attached to a Bandwidth Pool, from where each user in a Group is given Internet Bandwidth.

Nebero provides Hierarchical bandwidth Management which enables you to decide priority and availability of Internet bandwidth to different class of users. It allows you decide how much assured and maximum bandwidth is to provided to each user or an application/Protocol. No user or unauthorized application can choke bandwidth by going in for heavy upload/download as you define outgoing and incoming committed and maximum bandwidth for every user/IP address.

Along with Bandwidth Manager, Nebero also comes with a powerful QoS Manager which let administrators define bandwidth for different protocols, in percentages. The default schema of QoS Management has been carefully tweaked for best performance by RnD engineers. But in case, a network environment demands different settings, QoS Management settings can easily be tailored according to the requirements. For example if some organization has a a high rate for VOIP traffic, percentage of VOIP can be increased accordingly with a reduction in some other less used protocol like P2P. This ensures that VOIP traffic will always have a highest share of total bandwidth, resulting in good sound quality and better VOIP performance.

• Bandwidth management on multiple levels and Q.O.S.
• Allot and measure bandwidth by rate and utilization.
• Tunable traffic and QOS configuration.
• Realtime display of bandwidth statistics in the form of graphs.