Businesses and their users need to be able to work efficiently and have superior, consistent application performance; Class of Service (CoS) does just that. However, if you have a traditional network environment, CoS management can be quite an undertaking sometimes taking days to resolve, and weeks to change or update CoS assignments. Teltek partner, tw telecom’s Dynamic Prioritization for IP VPN will allow you to handle CoS adjustments can be instantly.
Steve Jacknow, Senior Sales Engineering Manager at tw telecom, doesn’t believe that throwing more bandwidth at a CoS problem is always the answer. “’There are times you really need control of CoS,’ Most enterprises strive to maintain adequate bandwidth for business as usual. For predictable activity and events, having available capacity is generally enough. However, events that can commonly cause demand problems include implementation of cloud services, implementation of an application that requires additional voice services, or an industry event that changes the usual traffic patterns. ‘At those times, having CoS policies in place ensures that the highest-level data will get through while the problem is resolved.’”
So it’s great to be able to have policies in place for planned events and hiccups but what happens when your priorities change unexpectedly, outside of plan? Maybe something as simple as data backup and replication, new software deployments, or application updates that will result in serious network congestion due to the increase in traffic. Other hiccups could be completely outside of the organization’s control, like a major weather event. Regardless of the hiccup, you need to be able to adjust your networks priorities and how those priorities are handled by your network.
Dynamic Prioritization and Intelligent Networks make it easy for your business “to make immediate changes to your CoS policies and categorize network traffic the way you want. As part of the Intelligent Network, the Dynamic Prioritization interface is extremely intuitive. Through the MyPortal interface, business can establish a policy change that affects all sites, several sites at once, or only selected sites — either at once in the case of a sudden event or on specific dates, well in advance of an expected event.” At the end of the day, if your business does in fact still need more bandwidth for a period of time in spite of the updated policies Dynamic Capacity® can help fulfill that need — instantly.
Want to get a better handle on your network, CoS and fluctuating bandwidth needs? Give us a call to discuss how Teltek and tw telecom can help with Dynamic Prioritization and Intelligent Networks!
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