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Kentrox Q1300 QoS Appliance
GUI Based QoS Appliance with Statistics and Reports
Product Description
Quality of Service (QoS) is becoming increasingly important for many
organizations. Applications such as Voice over IP (VoIP), video, and business
systems compete with other less critical traffic for limited network resources,
especially at the Wide Area Network (WAN) access point. Limited resources can
create data loss or delays in the flow of information. This is particularly true
with VoIP—delayed voice or dropped calls are just a few examples.
Companies need to protect their investment in the WAN, ensuring it is used for
key business applications. IP convergence is also creating new challenges.
Convergence often brings cost savings but can also add complexity. Finally, many
new services and IT applications are entering the market. What should you look
for in QoS products? Low cost, fast and easy installation, and a standards-based
solution are required.
The Kentrox Q1300 QoS Appliance makes prioritizing traffic and managing
bandwidth practical. A graphical web interface provides instrumentation to
easily monitor, diagnose, and add policies to ensure proper network performance.
The Q1300 combines the features of a QoS appliance and Ethernet switch into one
easy-to-use network access device. Graphical reporting also helps ensure that
QoS is performing in the network.
QoS statistics and reports
The Q1300’s graphical reports allow users to verify that QoS is actually
performing at the WAN access. Policy reports provide instant feedback on how
policies are being applied to network traffic. QoS reports validate traffic by
traffic class, so you are ensured that the proper prioritization is occurring to
and from the network. Both real-time and historical reports are available to
validate changes instantly and to debug problems that have occurred in the past.
Affordable QoS support
Adding QoS to a network with other products in the market today can be costly.
Often, enhancing routers with QoS support involves purchasing additional
licenses and increasing memory. In many cases, the router has to be replaced.
This results in added cost to the network and a significant amount of network
down-time for the upgrade.
The Q1300 is designed to add the QoS support needed for business applications at
an affordable price. It delivers business-class prioritization without requiring
additional management servers or highly trained staff.
Easy installation
QoS can be difficult to set up in routers and bandwidth management devices.
Special training is often required, and that can be problematic for many
businesses trying to reduce support costs.
The Kentrox QoS appliance is designed to simplify installation with an intuitive
graphical user interface (GUI), making it faster and easier for installers to
get the system up and running.
Protect critical applications
Mission-critical applications and delay-sensitive traffic, such as video and
Voice over IP, significantly degrade when competing for WAN bandwidth due to
heavy web traffic. The Q1300 provides priority queuing and shapes traffic before
reaching the WAN to ensure high-priority traffic takes precedence over less
critical applications. By default, traffic can be classified using
industry-standard priority levels making prioritization easy to deploy for most
applications. The Q1300 moves delay-sensitive traffic to the front of the queue
to reduce delay for time-sensitive traffic. The Q1300 also supports user-created
policies for advanced traffic management.
Add QoS support to existing networks
The Q1300 performs prioritization and traffic shaping prior to reaching the WAN,
so QoS can be added in almost any network. With typical throughput of 10 Mbps or
more, the appliance can be used in conjunction with a range of services,
including T1 to multi-link T1, DSL, cable, microwave, and metro-Ethernet. WAN
bandwidth settings ensure prioritization is managed in the QoS appliance and not
in the access router or modem. In most cases, the Q1300 can be added into a
network within 15 minutes without removing or replacing existing equipment,
making the addition of QoS easy and fast.
Web-style GUI simplifies management
The Q1300’s graphical user interface contains powerful tools to troubleshoot
problems, run QoS reports, make configuration changes, set up traffic-shaping
policies, or just check the health of the network. Arranged logically and
intuitively by function, the Q1300’s GUI is point-and-click easy. In addition, a
command line interface is provided for other management options.
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