Ecsessa announced the introduction of Bandwidth Throttling technology in order to enable organizations to provide an enhanced, optimally WAN optimization configured link throughput for everyone without having to over-purchase bandwidth.

Company sources added that it ensures the best possible utilization of network resources. Ecessa’s (News - Alert) PowerLink, ShieldLink, and ClariLink products leverage the Bandwidth Throttling technology, to help users to overcome the difficulties associated with applications that require greater bandwidth. If this happens then the network becomes extremely slow and unusable for other users on the network.

Business environments require more efficiency from WAN optimized networks. Most businesses are using their WAN Link for additional applications for internal use and also for providing optimum service and accessibility to customers.

For meeting such demands on the network, some organizations have internal users or departments that run applications that are very bandwidth dependent and can cause Internet access to be very slow or unusable to everyone else.

Traditional methods of using appliances for controlling utilization have their limitations. According to Ecsessa officials rules can be difficult to create, as the traffic can be difficult to define.

File-sharing applications can be configured to use a wide range of possible ports, including those used for other traffic. Rules are created based on traffic types. Such rules will allow or block specific traffic, or set specific parameters for how much bandwidth will be available. Blocking specific traffic may be suitable for some cases but may affect network usage of customers and employees.

Also such bandwidth control often affects only outbound traffic. In case of inbound traffic, the bandwidth is already used by the time it reaches the controlling device.

Ecessa sources added that its PowerLink, ShieldLink, and ClariLink products use Bandwidth Throttling technology to overcome such problems of bandwidth hogging.

In the case of Ecessa Bandwidth Throttling, rules are defined by utilization, and not by specific traffic types. These rules are flexible as they feature configured thresholds at which different throttling levels are applied.

This technology allows a session to be pushed down in priority if it exceeds 1 MB of data transferred, and pushed down further if it exceeds 3 MB, and so on.

Also it was revealed that Ecessa’s Quality of Service solutions help network administrators meet challenges posed while trying to maximize the efficiency of their networks. Administrators can now regain control of their resources by combining the precision of specific rules along with the flexibility of utilization-based prioritization.