NetEqualizer News Blog

Our Fall Release is now in beta! We will have a limited number of slots available for beta testing these features. Please contact us if you are interested.

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General availability will be in December 2011.

As always, the Fall Release will be available at no charge to customers with valid

NetEqualizer Software Subscriptions (NSS).

Here is a preview of our exciting new features:

Email Notification

The Fall Release will provide users with the ability to set an email account that the NetEqualizer can send alerts to. For example, users can set their account to be notified when IPv6 traffic exceeds 1%. There will also be many other types of notifications to configure, but we don’t want to give too much away – you’ll have to try it out yourself!

IPv6 Visibility

As we await the need to handle significant amounts of IPv6 traffic, NetEqualizer is already implementing solutions to meet the shift head-on. The Fall Release will include features that will provide enhanced visibility to IPv6 traffic.

The best way to begin this transition in our software is to provide users with a way to see how IPv6 traffic is passing through their network. The most effective way to convey these details is to provide a connection table in the GUI that shows all of the IPv6 flows and their bandwidth consumption. We will also be providing a way to monitor your total IPv6 traffic from an historical perspective. These two features will provide useful data in order to better position your organization for the eventual shift to IPv6.

Here is a screen shot of sample IPv6 traffic in the NetEqualizer GUI:

It should be noted that for now, even for customers with dual stacks, we do not expect the IPv6 traffic to eclipse more than a fraction of a percent of network traffic.

Read more IPv6-related articles from our blog.

DiffServ Priority

We are now seeing an influx of customers looking to provide priority bandwidth to VoIP and video connections on their links without all the hassle of complex router rules.

NetEqualizer’s new DiffServ Priority feature is the solution. Included in the Fall Release, the DiffServ Priority feature will automatically prioritize connections that are utilizing services like VoIP and video – as well as a host of other types of important connections. This will provide improved quality of service on your network.

What causes slowness on a shared link?

Everything you do on your Internet creates a connection from inside your network to the Internet, and all these connections compete for the limited amount of bandwidth which your ISP provides.

Your router (cable modem) connection to the Internet provides first-come, first-serve service to all the applications trying to access the Internet. To make matters worse, the heavier users (the ones with the larger persistent downloads), tend to get more than their fair share of router cycles. Large downloads are like the school yard bully – they tend to butt in line, and not play fair.