Benefits

Your network gives staff and students access to the content, systems, and services that create a rich and powerful learning environment. But network misuse, tight resources, and lack of information can make managing your network time-consuming and frustrating. Lightspeed Network Traffic Manager helps you maintain the availability and performance of your school network with traffic and bandwidth management.

Keeps your network running smoothly. The performance of your network relies on access to network health and usage information. Network Traffic Manager allows you to ensure the availability of critical services by giving you an easy-to-understand overview of network usage and by providing you with the tools to manage traffic issues.

Allows you to quickly pinpoint and resolve problems. Problems with your network can be tracked down to a user, application, computer, or time of day. And flexible rules make it easy for you to adjust your traffic management to resolve problems—before they impact users and systems.

Manages network bandwidth. Guarantee bandwidth for your critical applications while blocking or limiting the bandwidth used by non-priority applications. Class-Based Queuing allows you to classify, allocate, and share network bandwidth among classes of traffic, while individual session management lets you supplement general queuing rules as required.

Gives you granular control over your network. With Network Traffic Manager’s flexible rules, you can block or limit web content categories, peer-to-peer traffic, instant messaging, web applications and questionable file extensions

Features

Lightspeed Network Traffic Manager provides powerful, easy-to-use features for monitoring your network and managing your bandwidth.

• Granular traffic and bandwidth management, by source or destination IP, source or destination port number, application, username or group, time of day
• Extensive reporting, with the ability to automatically generate and distribute key reports
• Customizable rules to block or limit traffic to a specified number of kilobytes (or megabytes) per second

Reporting

Lightspeed Network Traffic Manager gives you access to comprehensive, customizable reports on your network usage and health, so you can adjust Acceptable Use Policies, review problems and troubleshoot issues, and plan for ongoing needs. You can see a high-level overview of network traffic, and then drill down for detailed information, with reports like:

• Applications Installed
• Top Network Users
• Computers: Hardware
• Computers: System Information
• Busiest Protocols
• Total Incoming/Outgoing Traffic
• Logged In Users