Re: Packet shaping / bandwidth enforcement

[Michael Cole <mcole () CLARKU EDU>]

We got off of our packet shaper 4500 about 3 years ago and moved to an ellacoya e30 switch and service logic engine.  
It's primary market is provisioning offers to broadband providers to homes.  It's very easy to use, has great reporting 
features off a back end oracle database.  The e30 has gigabite uplinks.  They are now part of arbor networks.  
(www.arbornetworks.com).  Their support has been excellent.  They have been good about updating signatures and it's 
fairly easy to upgrade the switch and service logic engine.  I'd used a couple of differetn models of the packetshaper 
for about 6 years as our internet connection grew before moving to the ellacoya e30 and I still think it was a good 
move for us.

Mike

Michael A. Cole
Manager of Network Operations
Clark University
950 Main Street
Worcester, MA  01610



-----Original Message-----
From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Vincent 
Stoffer
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 1:15 PM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: [SECURITY] Packet shaping / bandwidth enforcement

Hello all,

The topic has been discussed on the list before, but since it's been a little while, I thought we could revisit it and 
hear updates from people who have had any experience with new options.

We are in the process of looking at replacing our aging and bandwidth crunched Packetshaper.  I am curious what others 
are using, especially if you went from a Packetshaper to something else.  I'm aware of the NetEqualizer, the 
NetEnforcer and the Procera Packetlogic.  Any thoughts from users of these products and/or any other devices or 
solutions people have come up with?  I'm especially interested in how you handle redundancy/failure of such a device at 
your site.

Feel free to respond to me off list if you prefer.

Thank you,

Vince

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