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WALTHAM, MASS. - Sitara Networks believes it has the answer for ensuring quality of service (QoS) over low-speed lines.
The company last week announced a QoS appliance called QoSWorks. QoSWorks is designed for branch and remote office environments where WAN speeds top out at T-1/E-1.
In the LAN environment, where bandwidth is inexpensive, users administer QoS just by throwing more bandwidth at applications. But in the WAN, where bandwidth is at a premium - indeed, 88% of frame relay links are 128K bit/sec or slower, according to Sitara QoS administration is a science.
QoSWorks is designed for companies looking to engage in e-business but wary of sharing bandwidth for business applications with e-mail, Web browsing and streaming media. To help reserve bandwidth for the applications that need it most, QoSWorks classifies traffic and allocated bandwidth based on priority policies established for specific traffic classes.
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