Bandwidth Management
Manage, limit and prioritize your network bandwidth
- Advanced bandwidth limiting and prioritizing capabilities
- Comprehensive reporting on network use
- Granular controls over application, computer, and user network usage
About Bandwidth Prioritization
Ensuring that your users have access to critical applications and services when they need it most requires knowledge of where your bandwidth is used, and the ability to set policies to prioritize it.
Lightspeed Bandwidth Prioritization lets you control bandwidth to specific content categories and gives you easy-to-understand reporting on your network’s bandwidth usage so you can troubleshoot problems and limit or prioritize certain users and applications to maintain the highest level of service and performance.
Learn about the features of Bandwidth Management and Prioritization
Features of Bandwidth Prioritization
Lightspeed Bandwidth Prioritization provides powerful, easy-to-use features for managing network traffic:
- Granular traffic and bandwidth prioritization capabilities based on content categories
- Customizable rules to block or limit traffic by percentage or to a specified size per second
- Class-based queuing rules
- Ability to manage individual sessions
- Easy to understand and extensive reports automatically generated and distributed as needed
Learn about the reporting capabilities of Bandwidth Prioritization
Reporting of Bandwidth Prioritization
Lightspeed Bandwidth Prioritization provides comprehensive reporting on bandwidth usage so that you can keep your network running optimally, spot potential problems, plan for future use, and adjust Acceptable Use Policies. Start with a high-level overview of bandwidth utilization, and then drill down for detailed traffic and user information with reports like:
- Busiest Protocols
- File Uploads/Downloads
- Top Internet Users
- Logged in Users by IP
- Incoming/Outgoing Traffic by MAC
- Total Incoming Traffic
- Total Outgoing Traffic
- Traffic by External IP
- Traffic by Internal IP
- Traffic by Protocol
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Learn about the benefits of Bandwidth Management and Prioritization
With Lightspeed Bandwidth Prioritization you can:
- Control bandwidth allocation based on content categories.
- Limit bandwidth usage by non-priority applications or users.
- Adjust traffic patterns with flexible rules before users are impacted.
- Classify, allocate, and share network bandwidth among classes of traffic.
Enjoy more cost-saving and time-saving benefits by combining Bandwidth Prioritization with the other components in the Lightspeed Suite, an all-in-one solution for filtering, securing, managing, and monitoring your school network.
Available as a standalone solution or part of the complete Lightspeed Suite, an all-in-one solution for school network management.