SunGate For Higher-Education Institutions

Educational institutions of all kinds have become Internet Service Providers for their communities of faculty, students and administration personnel. As a result, they are constantly struggling to manage the growing use of high-bandwidth applications (namely P2P, streaming video) that compete with their revenue-generating and mission-critical applications without resorting to the costly and futile soflution of simply increasing bandwidth on the backbone network.

Challenges

The proliferation of Peer-to-Peer (P2P), video, multi-player gaming and other bandwidth-intensive applications, however, has heavily impacted most higher-education organizations – for example, P2P often exceeds 70% of total network traffic for these networks.

In addition to these challenges, higher-education IT managers face multiple network requirements, among them maintaining a high quality of service (QoS) for users and business-critical applications, preserving academic freedom to research and learn, and holding the line on bandwidth costs.

The benifits

Key SunGate Features for Higher-Education Institutions:

  • Deploy fairness to secure expected resources to all users
  • Accurate and reliable intelligence on what your user do online - available in real-time
  • Non-disruptive automatic TCP Windows shaping and prioritization technology that secures quality for sensitive applications
  • One single template for overwall bandwidth management
  • Carrier-grade performance and capacity