NetEqualizer
Encyclopedia
The NetEqualizer is a bandwidth
shaping
system designed for voice and data networks created by APconnections in 2003. NetEqualizer appliances use built-in fairness rules to automatically shape traffic. Based on current network usage, traffic is controlled by application-level traffic shaping. When the network is congested, the fairness algorithm favors business class applications at the expense of large file downloads, such as those seen with peer-to-peer file sharing. The favored applications include those such as VoIP, Web browsing, chat and email.
The NetEqualizer has been implemented by colleges, universities, libraries, hotels, and businesses around the world. The appliance is currently being used in the rebuilding efforts in both Iraq
and Afghanistan
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APconnections is a privately held company founded in 2003 and is based in Lafayette, Colorado
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Bandwidth (computing)
In computer networking and computer science, bandwidth, network bandwidth, data bandwidth, or digital bandwidth is a measure of available or consumed data communication resources expressed in bits/second or multiples of it .Note that in textbooks on wireless communications, modem data transmission,...
shaping
Traffic shaping
Traffic shaping is the control of computer network traffic in order to optimize or guarantee performance, improve latency, and/or increase usable bandwidth for some kinds of packets by delaying other kinds of packets that meet certain criteria...
system designed for voice and data networks created by APconnections in 2003. NetEqualizer appliances use built-in fairness rules to automatically shape traffic. Based on current network usage, traffic is controlled by application-level traffic shaping. When the network is congested, the fairness algorithm favors business class applications at the expense of large file downloads, such as those seen with peer-to-peer file sharing. The favored applications include those such as VoIP, Web browsing, chat and email.
The NetEqualizer has been implemented by colleges, universities, libraries, hotels, and businesses around the world. The appliance is currently being used in the rebuilding efforts in both Iraq
Iraq
Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
and Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...
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APconnections is a privately held company founded in 2003 and is based in Lafayette, Colorado
Lafayette, Colorado
The City of Lafayette is a Home Rule Municipality located in Boulder County, Colorado, United States. The United States Census Bureau estimates that the city population was 23,884 on 2005-07-01.- Geography :Lafayette is located at ....
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