Which products can aggregate/cap bandwidth. I have been looking at the Alteon 180, but i am not sure of others to compare it too. Or where to even buy such products. Any pointers?


Thanks

Most advanced Layer 3 switches can; Foundry, Extreme, Cisco, etc.

Mike is right, a multilayer switch is your best bet. The Alteon 18x boxes are too expensive on a per-port basis to use simply for bandwdith management.

If you are looking for a dedicated box, take a look at the:

PacketShaper: http://www.packeteer.com/products/packetshaper/index.cfm

QOSWorks: http://www.sitaranetworks.com/products/qosworks/

Originally posted by Dilhole
Which products can aggregate/cap bandwidth. I have been looking at the Alteon 180, but i am not sure of others to compare it too. Or where to even buy such products. Any pointers?


To answer your other question, load balancing products similar to the Alteon 180 are:

Cisco Arrowpoint
Foundry ServerIron
F5 Big IP
Radware WSD

http://www.etinc.com/


Sean R.
BurstNET

You could cap using "tc" in linux or "ipfw" in fbsd to do traffic shaping.

I was looking at the alteon to cap on per IP basis, no way in hell I would use that to cap on a perport. Ill look at these other products mentioned.

Thanks

Hi,
I'm thinking about using bandwidth manager from ETINC , but I do not know how to purchase the ethernet card,
Is it a 2 port ethernet card?
what model name/product is the best for it?

Its quite confusing because they don't mention this at all on their site.