Another Tale

Ted KrupickaAssociate Director

University Information ServicesPacific University

Forest Grove, Oregonwww.pacificu.edu

Copyright Ted Krupicka, 2001. This work is the intellectual property of the author. Permission is granted for this material to be shared for non-commercial, educational purposes, provided that this copyright statement appears on the reproduced materials and notice is given thatthe copying is by permission of the author. To disseminate otherwise or to republish requires written permission from the author.

Who Is Pacific?

2100 full time undergraduate and graduate level students, 600 faculty and staff

Campus locations in Forest Grove, Portland, and Eugene Oregon

14 IT staff members

Jennifer’s Lexus

Warning Signs

Pacific’s VW

QuickTime™ and aSorenson Video decompressorare needed to see this picture.

                   

   

Just Give Them Bandwidth

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Available Bandwidth

(Mb)

9/1/00 10/1/00 11/1/00

Bandwidth Utilization(A Reinactment)

Finding The Solution

25% to 30% of bandwidth to outside P2P users

Just a few internal P2P users using the rest Critical applications timed out due to the

bursty traffic

Campus Network PacketShaper Firewall Internet

Getting It Under Control

Before

After

Getting It Under Control

With ControlWith Control

Without ControlWithout Control

Packeteer’s 4-Step Process

Layer 7 Classification

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Data Link

Transport

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PacketShaper automatically discovers and classifies hundredsof different traffic types

Precise Classification by:• Application• Port• URL• Protocol• IP Address• MAC Address• IP Precedence

Napster, Gnutella, Napster, Gnutella, imesh, Scour, etc.imesh, Scour, etc.

The New Fall Line Napster’s

Replacements

Analysis Made Easy – Top Ten

What’s competing for the bandwidth? Top Talkers & Listeners Traffic Distribution

Control

Set policies to control performance Per-application minimum/maximum bandwidth policies Per-user minimum/maximum bandwidth policies Priority-based policies More

When Bandwidth is Needed Band Together in your Region-

Oregon Independent Colleges Association

Portland Regional Education Network Northwest Access Exchange

Find New Transport- Cable Companies Power Companies Wireless/Optical

P2P Ratios

Plugs to the Pillow 1/1

Pipes to People 1/4

Policy to Pain 1/1

Recommendations Know what is using your bandwidth Identify Mission Critical Applications Start the political processes for applying

policies Implement a bandwidth management

solution like the PacketShaper Add bandwidth only when needed to

support policies

Q&A

For More information Pacific University www.pacificu.edu Packeteer www.packeteer.com Oregon Independent Colleges Assn.

www.oicanet.org Portland Regional Education Network

www.pren.org Northwest Access Exchange

www.nwax.net