Case Studies
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ipoque Enables Cable Operator to Balance between Network Performance and P2P Access |
TVTEL, a Portuguese cable operator, struggled with a very high volume of peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing traffic. With an average P2P load of 65 percent rising up to 95 percent at nighttime, there was an adverse performance impact for all Internet users. TVTEL deployed several PRX Traffic Managers and implemented a priority management scheme that gives P2P traffic a lower priority and thus improves the quality of service for all other applications such as Web browsing and Internet telephony.
Case Study – tvtel Portugal (160 kB)
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ipoque Guarantees Skype Performance at the Top of the World |
Many parts of the world still have only limited Internet service and bandwidth. Greenland is such a place and providing that valuable resource for the people at Thule Air Base has been a major challenge. Internet traffic management from ipoque is helping IT meet that challenge.
Case Study – Greenland Contractors at Thule Air Base (196 kB)
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ipoque Solves Network Performance Problems Caused by P2PAt the University of Innsbruck in Austria, IT personnel struggled with a large volume of peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P) traffic such as BitTorrent and eDonkey that was using up to 60% of the overall network capacity and slowing down other applications. The existing bandwidth management system proved incapable of handling the high volume of traffic and failed to reliably detect encrypted P2P protocols. Read in this case study how ipoque’s PRX-2000 Traffic Manager has solved the problems and restored the quality of service in the network. |
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ipoque Guarantees Performance on Cable Provider’s Network in Angola |
In Africa, Internet access is a scarce and valuable resource, as terrestrial solutions are seldom available and the cost of satellite access makes services much more expensive than in other markets. The cost of bandwidth often prohibits network expansion and subscribers are forced to share the limited resources on the network. These circumstances are especially challenging for carriers as peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing traffic increases. P2P traffic consumes ever more bandwidth, resulting in bottlenecks for business critical applications. At TVCABO, ipoques PRX-1000 Traffic Manager solves massive performance problems by throttling P2P traffic during peak hours.
Case Study – TVCABO, Angola (184 kB)
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Legal File Sharing with BitTorrent Whitelisting |
RWTH Aachen, renowned German technical university, solved their peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing problem by installing ipoque's PRX Traffic Manager. The unique P2P control features put the IT department in control of P2P usage and allow students unimpeded access to legal BitTorrent content.
Case Study – RWTH Aachen (228 kB)
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PRX-5G Traffic Manager Convinces with Effective and Flexible Bandwidth Management |
Firewalls have numerous functions. Limited bandwidth management is one of them. As many operators prefer an all-in-one solution, they try to solve problems like copyright violations caused by P2P file sharing with blocking the application using a firewall. But how exact is a tool, that is not constructed for such tasks? This is exactly the kind of question the team of the Gauss IT Center at the Technische Universität Braunschweig asked, when copyright violations in their network increased alarmingly. This case study shows why firewalls are not always the best option and how operators can improve the situation with a bandwidth management solution such as ipoque’s PRX Traffic Manager.