JANET Bandwidth Management Advisory Service

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Technology Papers and Guidance

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

 

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