Beyond Classes of Service - a user guide


In the past WANs were used for a small number of information and business applications, (financial accounting, supply chain, etc.); now, however, they are available to every level of the enterprise.

The flexibility of IP protocols allows the network to be shared by numerous applications. Each of these applications impacts the way a company is run and they require very differing performance levels: transactional traffic is impacted by average delay, large file transfers are bandwidth hungry, while voice traffic is very sensitive to jitter. This increasing number of different uses leads to greater network requirements along with the need to align network resources with applications requirements.

Faced with the successful deployment of private networks (IP VPNs) and the need to differentiate the performance of different applications, Service Operators are offering their clients Classes of Service (CoS) over MPLS networks.

Even though CoS is a step in the right direction, it is often not able to respond to all the issues associated with multiple application deployments on the same network. It has some natural inflexibilities and limitations.

Ipanema has gone beyond the limitations of CoS and has created the ‘Business Network Optimization’ solution, allowing you to align application performance requirements with the enterprise’s network resources in a more specific, flexible and dynamic way.
 

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