It sounds like it has improved somewhat from when I was using the Allot box back in '97. It would be nice if there was more automation in the process.
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Rick Kunze <[email protected]> wrote: > It's been a lengthy learning curve, I've been forming this mechanism > since around 2001 but it all works very well now. I use 5 levels of > priority for customers, Level 0 through Level 4. Level 5 is for > special use when needed and 6 is infrastructure equipment. Level 7 > (top level) is reserved so I can reach things in the event of some > other host or interface causing a packet storm or the like. > > Then the balancing act is grouping day-user businesses with > night-user residentials, or whatever is needed to lump all customers > into a few smaller groups. Then the total bandwidth is partitioned > into the same number of slices as there are groups of > customers. This becomes the CIR but is fundamentally based on > priority. The burst then comes in from the scattering of priority > levels within each group. Basically residentials are sacraficed > during the week days for any other higher priority packet. But > ceilings are also put in place to keep any one customer from sucking > all the Ether out of the wire. That's also inherent in the grouping > strategy. > > It's always a moving target though, and needs re-shuffling from time > to time as the usage patterns of some users change over time. > > Some groups are geographical, but mostly it's random based on usage > patterns. What I've seen change the most over the last 6-12 months > especially is that residential is overtaking business. The night > time bandwidth demands are equal to and starting to exceed daytime > business demands. The former having ramped up considerably lately > with movies and the like. A streaming Netflix standard def movie is > roughly a 1.2 meg stream for a couple hours, but the "duty cycle" as > I like to call it is only about 50% to 80%. > > Rk > > > > At 08:53 AM 3/30/2011, you wrote: > >Rick, Thats great! The real trick is can you prioritize AND bill > accordingly? > > > >On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Rick Kunze > ><<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote: > >At 10:37 AM 3/29/2011, you wrote: > > >Wow that would be cool. Now just to find a device which can split > > >all that out easily and maintain accounting. > > > >I have this all automatically controlled with a Packeteer. Eight > >levels of priority with "on the fly" per packet control, partitioning > >of bandwidth, and the ability to control both priority and volume on > >a per customer basis, right down to the actual type of traffic such > >as www or smtp, or Citrix, or you name it. Traffic discovery, makes > >graphs, runs scripts to change things on weekends for example, all > >kinds of features. > > > >These things are cheap on Ebay. > > > >Rk > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -- -RickG
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