The purpose of this seminar is to discuss issues related to Network Traffic Management. A relatively new category of network management is fast becoming a necessity in converged business Networks. Mid-sized and large organizations are finding they must control network traffic behavior to assure that their strategic applications always get the resources they need to perform optimally.

Controlling network traffic requires limiting bandwidth to certain applications, guaranteeing minimum bandwidth to others, and marking traffic with high or low priorities. This exercise is called Network Traffic Management.

Where should we measure traffic?

Usually, traffic management is deployed at the WAN edge of an enterprise site. This is where the high-speed LAN meets the lower-speed WAN access link. The LAN- WAN juncture is also where both Internet and intranet traffic enter and exit the enterprise. So it is the ideal place to “tame” traffic and to mitigate the impact of non- critical and even suspicious traffic picked up on the Internet. Limiting or blocking the network resources available to frivolous or undesirable traffic boosts the performance of

enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), and other strategic, business-critical applications.