Network Traffic Manager

Overview

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 lets you keep an eye on your overall network health, and keep critical applications running on your busy network with advanced bandwidth limiting and prioritizing capabilities. Advanced reporting makes it easy to spot and resolve problems with hardware, software, overall system performance, and bandwidth utilization.

Learn about the features of Network Traffic Manager

Features

Lightspeed Network Traffic Manager provides powerful, easy-to-use features for managing network traffic:

• Granular traffic and bandwidth management, by source or destination IP, source or destination port number, application, username or group, organizational unit, or time of day
• Extensive reporting, with the ability to automatically generate and distribute key reports
• Customizable rules to block or limit traffic by percentage or to a specified number of kilobytes (or megabytes) per second
• Detailed reporting on users’ Internet usage, including Internet search queries, instant messaging messages, web sites visited, web sites denied, and more

Learn about the reporting capabilities of Network Traffic Manager

Reporting

Network Traffic Manager gives you access to comprehensive information about 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:

• Top Network Users
• Busiest Protocols
• Total Incoming/Outgoing Traffic
• Logged In Users
• Search Engine Queries/ Suspicious Search Engine Queries
• Instant Messages/Suspicious Instant Messages
• File Image Archive

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Learn about the benefits of Network Traffic Manager

Benefits

Network Traffic Manager offers valuable benefits to schools with both high and low bandwidth.

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.

Learn how you can enjoy more cost-saving and time-saving benefits by combining Network Traffic Manager with the other components in Total Traffic Control, a comprehensive solution for filtering, securing, managing, and monitoring your school network.