JANET Bandwidth Management Advisory Service

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Product Evaluations

 

Technology Papers and Guidance

The Bandwidth Management Advisory Service was withdrawn on 1st August 2010. The existing information will remain on the web site for information purposes but will not be updated.

 

Should you have any BMAS queries, please contact the Service Desk service@ja.net and we will endeavour to provide you with an answer.

 

Traffic Management:

• Installing ISA Server 2000 In A Windows Server 2003 Environment (Microsoft Word)

• Microsoft ISA Server 2004 Overview (Microsoft Word)

• Microsoft® ISA Server 2000 Configuration Notes

Content filtering:

• BMAS Virus Prevention (Microsoft Word)

• Conserving bandwidth when using Apache WWW Server
  find out how you can conserve bandwidth using features for Apache WWW Server

Data compression:

• Data Compression index
  see what compression techniques are available and how they can help you save bandwidth

Content delivery infrastructure:

• Streaming Media web page
• Multicast over JANET

Caching:

• Caching web page

Prioritisation of Traffic

• Quality of Service (QoS) basics (pdf) - excerpts from the book Computer Networks: Principles Technologies and Protocols for Network Design by Natalia Olifer and Victor Olifer .

• The Cisco NBAR feature
  find out more about this useful Cisco IOS feature which is available on a wide range of Cisco Routers. NBAR is a classification engine which can be utilised to ensure that network bandwidth is efficiently used through the classification of traffic and subsequent application of Quality of Service (QoS).

Traffic Analysis

• Network monitoring

 

Other BMAS web site pages of interest:

• Useful Links