BANDWIDTH OPTIMISATION

Enterprises continue to implement mission critical bandwidth-hungry, enterprise-wide applications. Users also demand greater availability, faster application and network speeds, and even more applications. As a result, bandwidth is being squeezed by these massive applications and the concurrent burden of demanding users.

Purchasing more and more bandwidth is certainly not a solution. Companies need to look at avenues to utilise existing bandwidth more effectively. There are a myriad of technologies to enable you to flexibly allocate bandwidth according to the most important business imperatives.

Dimension Data’s Bandwidth Optimisation solution consolidates best-of-breed caching, Quality of Service (QoS), compression and network monitoring/ reporting technologies, into a single solution that looks at bandwidth usage in its entirety and makes recommendations on how best to optimise bandwidth. It consists of the following items:

Traffic Profiling Surveyor
One of our professional consultants utilises specialist tools to analyse and classify your network traffic. They also analyse the protocol mix and usage patterns of network traffic and help you to understand and detail the network design, while providing a blueprint for bandwidth optimisation.

Optimisation Technologies
Following the Surveyor recommendations and blueprint, we implement traffic shaping/ QoS technologies to improve the behaviour of fluctuating applications, which are detrimental to the applications’ performance. We increase your network capacity by means of compression and caching. This is ideally suited for applications with repetitive data like intranet, Citrix, email, and ERP applications. We also help you to understand the relationship between transactional data and content, using caching to proposition content, thus further reducing bandwidth.

Ongoing Assessment
Network traffic is constantly changing, new applications are being deployed on the network, and branch offices are being opened or closed. Once an optimal bandwidth design has been implemented, Dimension Data conducts regular traffic profiling to ensure that the initial design is still delivering optimal results.