Re: Dynamic Internet Bandwidth Allocation

[Christopher R Mielke <chris.mielke () DRAKE EDU>]

We do this exact thing with our Exinda appliance. The student/campus
percentage split is 60/40 from 8AM-6PM (M-F) and 90/10 on nights and
weekends. 

Thanks,

Chris Mielke
NETWORK ENGINEER 3
COMPUTER AND NETWORK SERVICES
DRAKE UNIVERSITY




On 2/1/12 8:59 AM, "Gary Flynn" <flynngn () JMU EDU> wrote:

> Miller,James R wrote:
> > We are looking at combining our residence hall network with the campus
> > network. The current structure of using a separate ISP for the residence
> > halls seems a little more expensive. Still using separate IP structure,
> > but we are looking at scheduling the majority of our bandwidth for the
> > main campus during normal classroom hours and then dynamically
> > allocating a large portion of the bandwidth for the residence halls to
> > have available after hours.. Without too much study so far, it appears
> > that our Exinda traffic shaping appliance may be capable of achieving
> > this with virtual circuits and scheduling. Is there anyone out there
> > doing this currently, and if so would you mind sharing what equipment or
> > software you are using to do this?
>
> We do this with Procera hardware. If you're interested,
> I'll put you in touch with our networking folks who
> manage it.
>
>
>
> -- 
> Gary Flynn
> Security Engineer
> James Madison University