We hope you enjoy this month’s NetEqualizer Newsletter. Highlights include discussions on Cloud Computing, the new VM release, and updates on Software Release 8.4.
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![]() February 2016
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NetEqualizer-VM is Ready, QoS for your Cloud! |
Greetings! Enjoy another issue of NetEqualizer News.
February is off to a snowy start in Colorado this year, with a major snowstorm on February 1st dumping 16+ inches of snow in Boulder! While we were snowed in, I had time to reflect and think about where bandwidth shaping is headed, and how we are well-positioned for the industry transition to Cloud Computing. In this month’s newsletter you can read how the NetEqualizer is “Cloud Ready”. We are now ready with our first VM release (NetEqualizer-VM); you can read all about it below. And finally, we share more news about our 8.4 Release – Enhanced Pools & Other GUI Features. And remember we are now on Twitter! You can now follow us @NetEqualizer. We love it when we hear back from you – so if you have a story you would like to share with us of how we have helped you, let us know. Email me directly at art@apconnections.net. I would love to hear from you! – Art Reisman (CTO) |
NetEqualizer-VM is Ready! |
Release 8.4 Update |
Enhanced Pools + GUI Redesign
In previous months’ newsletters we talked about changes coming to the regular NetEqualizer GUI. Over the next couple of months, we’ll highlight those changes here. One of the changes we are very excited about is the ability to manage Pools on the fly, and also the ability to name them! See the screenshot below: One of the best parts of this screen is that you can manage all Pools and all Pool Members at once. For example, see Pool 1 expanded to show the two Pool Members. You can also change the limits for the Pool, add new Pools, and delete Pools that you no longer need. We are also enhancing the new user interface with four primary menu options: This will help guide first-time users through the process of using NetEqualizer, and will also help separate the functionality out into to main usage categories. Check back next month for an update on more exciting changes planned for 8.4! Our time frame for General Acceptance of this release is April/May of 2016. As with all software releases, the 8.4 Release will be free to all customers with valid NetEqualizer Software and Support (NSS). |
Next Generation Bandwidth Control |
NetEqualizer is Cloud Ready
We received a call today from one of the Largest Tier 1 providers in the world. The salesperson on the other end was lamenting about his inability to sell cloud services to his customers. His service offerings were hot, but the customers’ Internet connections were not. Until his customers resolve their congestion problems, they were in a holding pattern for new cloud services. As a brief aside, here is a list of what a Next Generation Bandwidth Controller can do: As for those businesses mentioned by the sales representative, when they moved to the cloud, many of them had run into bottlenecks. The bottlenecks were due to their iOS updates and recreational “crap” killing the cloud application traffic on their shared Internet trunk. Their original assumption was they could use the QoS on their routers to mitigate traffic. After all, that worked great when all they had between them and their remote business logic was a nailed-up MPLS network. Because it was a private corporate link, they had QoS devices on both ends of the link and no problems with recreational congestion. Moving to the Cloud was a wake up call! Think about it, when you go to the cloud you only control one end of the link. This means that your router-based QoS is no longer effective, and incoming traffic will crush you if you do not do something different. The happy ending is that we were able to help our friend at BT telecom, by mitigating his customers’ bottlenecks. Contact us if you are interested in more details. |
Best Of Blog |
Capacity Planning for Cloud Applications The main factors to consider when capacity planning your Internet Link for cloud applications are: 1) How much bandwidth do your cloud applications actually need? Typical cloud applications require about 1/2 of a megabit or less. There are exceptions to this rule, but for the most part a good cloud application design does not involve large transfers of data. QuickBooks, Salesforce, Gmail, and just about any cloud-based data base will be under the 1/2 megabit guideline. The chart below really brings to light the difference between your typical, interactive Cloud Application and the types of applications that will really eat up your data link. |
Photo Of The Month
![]() Grasshopper
This closeup of a local grasshopper was taken by a staff member while in Kansas, a state in the central United States. We hope this picture doesn’t bug you.
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