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Company Overview

Allot offers the industry's broadest range of bandwidth management solutions with a combination of hardware/software products that suit any network configuration. The NetEnforcer® family of LAN appliances offer best-of-class traffic shaping technology for QoS/SLA enforcement, real-time IP monitoring, IP accounting and load balancing. The NetReality® family of WAN appliances, acquired from NetReality® in September 2002, offers award-winning technology for QoS/SLA enforcement, real-time, centralized, IP monitoring and IP accounting reporting.

In enterprise networks, Allot's solutions allow network managers to enable quality of service (QoS) by linking business policies to specific network actions that improve and control users' productivity and satisfaction as well as contain networking costs.

In carrier and IP service provider networks, Allot's QoS/SLA enforcement solutions enable service providers to maximize ROI by managing over-subscription, throttling P2P traffic on upstream and downstream links and delivering tiered services or classes of service.

Allot Communications optimizes your WAN with Layer-7 traffic management and empowers networks for business and links business policies to specific network actions that improve application and network performance.

Allot offers the industry's broadest range of bandwidth management solutions with a combination of hardware/software products that suit any network configuration:

Product Overview

NetEnforcer®

The NetEnforcer® family of bandwidth management LAN appliances offers best-of-class traffic shaping technology for QoS/SLA enforcement and real-time traffic monitoring on carrier (AC-1000 Series), service provider and enterprise networks. Individual models are optimized to support a variety of bandwidths and users.

NetEnforcer's traffic-shaping is complemented and enhanced by additional software modules including NetAccountant (IP accounting), CacheEnforcer® (traffic redirection) and NetBalancer® (server load-balancing).

AC-1000 Series

Carrier-Grade Service Control and QoS / SLA Enforcement

Carriers, service providers (xSPs) and data centers are faced with large infrastructure costs and decreasing margins. Profitability hinges on the ability to control spiraling network costs and to increase revenue through new lucrative services. These services may include controlling peer-to-peer (P2P) traffic, and providing tiered (differentiated) services for home and SOHO users and classes of service for business users. Large enterprises with Gigabit backbones seek to ensure acceptable performance for business- and time-critical applications such as CRM, ERP and VoIP.

Policy-Powered Networking
Allot Communications NetEnforcer® AC-1000 Series policy enforcement devices offer carriers, service providers and enterprises a complete suite of bandwidth management tools for quality of service (QoS); class-of-service enforcement and monitoring; and application performance. Placed on the network edge between the router and the switch, the NetEnforcer lets network managers immediately identify and limit excessive bandwidth consumers and put "recovered" bandwidth to better business use.

Service Providers

	Traffic Management for Service Providers • Control P2P and bandwidth abuse • Increase revenue from existing infrastructure • Enforce service level agreements • Classify Layer-7 traffic Service providers (xSPs) made large investments in infrastructure only to have the price of bandwidth become commoditized. Your profitability hinges on your ability to increase revenue from existing resources through over-subscribing network bandwidth and offering new lucrative services. These services may include throttling P2P traffic and providing tiered (differentiated) services such as "gold", "silver", or "bronze", and classes of service that deliver guaranteed bandwidth to support specific business-critical applications such as VoIP, Oracle, and Citrix.
Enterprise
	Enterprise WAN Traffic Management • Optimize your WAN infrastructure • Maximize business-critical application performance • Monitor network activity • Implement application- and IP-based accounting The exponential growth in the use of the Internet, combined with increased reliance on IP-based networks (private, public or VPN), for mission-critical and time-sensitive traffic, has resulted in unprecedented demands on existing communication systems. In order to achieve an acceptable quality of service (QoS) and maximize the performance of business-critical applications, network managers need to allocate network resources based on business priorities.

NetReality®

The NetReality family of bandwidth management WAN and LAN appliances offers award-winning technology for QoS enforcement and application-performance monitoring on large enterprise networks. NetReality offers an especially powerful solution for non-IP networks such as Frame Relay or for IP networks with VoIP or H.323.

QoS Enforcement and Application Performance Monitoring

Enterprises with multiple offices face unique challenges. Like enterprises of all sizes, they struggle to manage the exponential growth in the use of the Internet and the corporate WAN, as well as the unprecedented demands for IP networking resources. As network managers at these organizations seek to allocate network resources based on business priorities, effective management of VoIP, Oracle and Citrix requires active traffic management and visibility beyond the LAN and into the WAN.

NetAccountant

The NetAccountant add-on software module enhances the application performance management and SLA/QoS enforcement capabilities of the NetEnforcer® with accurate data collection and server-based reporting.

There are two "models" of NetAccoutant: NetAccountant Carrier-Grade for the NetEnforcer AC-1000 Series and the NetAccountant for all other NetEnforcer devices.

Carrier-Grade IP Accounting and Reporting

After investing heavily in infrastructure, carriers and service providers need to maximize network performance and profitability. They must meet subscribers' service level agreements for business-critical applications while supplying the necessary bandwidth for lucrative value-added services. Through IP accounting and reporting, network managers of carrier networks can support their company's business goals.

Policy-Based IP Accounting and Reporting

After investing heavily in infrastructure, enterprises and service providers need to maximize network performance and profitability. In the enterprise, tracking usage is critical, whether to prevent P2P from choking the network or to ensure that business-critical applications perform as needed. Service providers struggle to meet service level agreements for business-critical applications while supplying bandwidth for advanced value-added services. In all cases, IP accounting and reporting enable network managers to support their company's business goals.

NetBalancer

Policy-Based Load Balancing Software

Web and other Internet-based server farms are a critical company resource. However, increased complexity of server farms and the need for improved server performance have created the need for network managers to more efficiently control and distribute server traffic.

Policy-Powered Networking
The Allot NetEnforcer® allows you to define advanced load balancing policies that reflect the capabilities of individual servers on your network. Using advanced load balancing and traffic management algorithms, the NetEnforcer continuously adjusts both the flow and prioritization of applications through the network and the distribution of those applications to servers resulting in efficient, optimized traffic throughout the network.
The NetEnforcer allows you to control and balance traffic to enterprise, corporate, and service provider server farms. It examines all user traffic and, when appropriate, redirects traffic to the appropriate server according to centrally defined policies. It then goes beyond traditional load balancing equipment by allowing you to define single policies that control both the prioritization of applications on the network and the distribution of those applications to servers.

Figure 1. Load-Balancing Network Configuration

CacheEnforcer

Policy-Based Cache Management Software

As network users continue to expect more and more performance from their Web and Intranet links, caching and other proxy servers are being installed to store data closer to the requestors. Increased numbers and complexity of cache servers have created the need for network managers to define caching policies to make efficient use of network resources.