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Stretch your network to deliver real Business Benefits

Enhancing your network, building your business, SunGate:

  • Optimises your network usage and performance

  • Moves best effort delivery to a predictable service

  • Dedicates the correct amount of bandwidth to your users and applications – increasing user productivity satisfaction and performance of all your applications

  • Enforces service level agreements with effective management of your bandwidth – reducing management, support and maintenance costs

  • Allows the business to eliminate and delay costly bandwidth upgrades

    • SunGate reduces traffic congestion, discards and retransmissions, increasing performance, reliability and integrity providing comprehensive bandwidth management and control.

    Unique Features

  • Ability to classify both inbound and out bound traffic using a single rule

  • Named network object and groups support

  • Global rules for multiple interfaces

  • Manages inbound UDP traffic from the host

  • Fine grained control of Bandwidth In, Out or combined (Bit Pacing)

  • True Gigabit plus - highest throughput available on the market

  • Lowest latency - on the market

  • Unlimited Sessions or Policies

  • Caters for exceptional load management/capacity

    • Classification

  • Ability to classify both inbound and outbound traffic using a single rule

  • All protocols (ie IP, IPX, DECnet, IGMP etc.)

  • Port Source, Destination or either

  • Port Range

  • Special filters for packet fragments, SYN set, ACK set, connects (SYN set& ACK not set) and all IP. (TCP header flags)

  • IP Address or subnet. Source or Destination Address or both

  • Named network object and groups support

  • P2P protocols – Gnutella, Morpheus, Kazar, Bittorrent and variants

  • VLAN discovery and filtering (802.1q)

  • TOS/Diffserv Matching (802.1p)

  • MAC Address. Source or Destination Address or both

  • Virtual Host Name Address filtering

  • URL sub-string or domain from GET or POST

  • FTP Protocol sniffing

  • SMTP Protocol and address decoding

  • HTTP/S Protocol and header decoding

  • IM Protocol discovery

  • VOIP discovery

    • Actions

  • Fixed or automatic rate limiting (TCP window size) using proprietary algorithms

  • Manages inbound UDP traffic from the host

  • Fine grained control of BandwidthIn, Out or combined (Bit Pacing)

  • Minimum (Guaranteed) Bandwidth

  • Burst Bandwidth with unlimited triggers

  • 10 priority levels with priority

  • Thresholds

  • Pass-Through for unmanaged data streams

  • Deny to block any traffic stream

  • Statistics Only Rules for reporting

  • Time-of-day, Day-of-Week, or Weekend activation

    • Advanced Features

  • Global Priorities definable by any combination of filters

  • Multi-port Bandwidth Management at true Gigabit and over

  • Unlimited Sessions or Policies

  • Change Rules Dynamically in real-time

  • Online and Multiple Offline ruleset management with roll-back and backups

  • Automatic rule generation from templates on discovery of a new host (IP or MAC address)

  • Reverse Limiting (Limit each “session” or user accessing a site)

  • Balanced Reverse Limiting (Each client gets proportionate sum of bandwidth)

  • Policy Groups with balanced or allocation of bandwidth, nested to unlimited levels

  • Advanced Group Functions (balanced groups, member overrides)

  • Bandwidth profiles for rule and SLA management

  • Daily and/or Monthly Bandwidth Quotas with automatic user and administration notifications

  • Unlimited report groups

  • Graphing of any definable address, network or traffic type

  • Policy groups with balanced or allocation of bandwidth, nested to any level

  • Full SQL reporting on all bandwidth usage

  • User Access filters so that customers/departments can only view applicable statistics

  • API integration for dynamically managing and changing rules for tens of thousands of users

  • Floating Quota’s, daily, weekly and monthly Quota management

  • Quota reports, force over quota, reset quotas – full API integration for total automation with existing systems

  • Integrate with existing billing and network management systems through SNMP and SMTP alerting