KITE - control and optimize enterprise Internet access

KITE is Ipanema's Internet access control kit for enterprises, which today rely on the Internet for:

• Access to external corporate, informational and entertainment web sites with a variety of content (data, music, images, video), including popular sites such as Wikipedia, Google, Flickr and Dailymotion.
• Software as a Service (SaaS) and cloud computing offerings, such as SalesForce.com, Webex and Amazon EC2.
• Peer-to-peer communications (data, voice, images) via Skype and other collaboration and sharing solutions.
• Access to enterprise servers from remote offices and by mobile employees via the Internet.

KITE enables the enterprise to maintain employee productivity and customer satisfaction by controlling and improving the usage and performance of applications using the Internet. It comes with a complete management and reporting software package (IMSS) and a physical ip|engine for installation on the Internet access link.

KITE has five configurations: KITE 20 (up to 20Mbps), KITE 100 (up to 100Mbps), KITE 150 (up to 150Mbps), KITE 300 (up to 300Mbps) and KITE 1000 (up to 1 Gbps).

KITE offers a comprehensive, integrated set of features to control and optimize the performance of all applications using the Internet:

• Application Visibility and reporting on traffic and application performance.
• QoS and Control to protect application performance for voice, ERP, Intranet, Citrix, Web-hosted applications or others.
• Rightsizing for deciding the right amount of Internet access bandwidth to achieve employee productivity and/or customer satisfaction goals - without guesswork or over-provisioning.