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Garden City Community College Maximizes Bandwidth With Cymphonix(TM) Network Composer(TM)

Posted on: Wednesday, 24 September 2008, 15:00 CDT

Cymphonix(TM) has announced that Garden City Community College in Garden City, Kansas, has integrated the Cymphonix Network Composer(TM) DC30X to maximize its bandwidth investment and increase productivity on campus. The campus maintains an open access network and therefore does not allow Web sites to be black listed.

Andy Gough, network administrator for Garden City Community College, was originally running his network on a 6MB connection; however, his network speeds were sluggish 24/7. These lagging speeds were generating an impressively high number of Help Desk complaints and preventing students and staff from completing daily tasks in a timely manner. At one point, Gough thought that dramatically increasing his bandwidth to a 10MB connection would solve his problem; however, once the upgrade was complete, his available bandwidth was still essentially non-existent. "I guess you could say our speeds doubled, but we're talking going from a 20K to a 40K download speed. It just proved that the more bandwidth you make available, the more your users are going to consume it," commented Gough.

Gough worked with Value Added Reseller (VAR) Speedlink Solutions to integrate a trial Cymphonix Network Composer(TM) to control the college's network resources. Once the box was installed, Garden City Community College saw the value of the device within three days. The solution showed exactly who was generating the traffic and also identified what type of traffic was responsible to the majority of the school's bandwidth use. It was revealed that the majority of the traffic was coming from online communities and streaming media. "I thought there would have been more P2P file sharing, but there was hardly any. Online communities were consuming the highest percentage of my bandwidth, and streaming media was second. Once I had this information, it allowed me to set specific shaping and prioritization policies so that these types of sites could still be accessed, but they wouldn't be allowed to consume the amount of bandwidth that previously had been," Gough continued. "Once the policies were in place, our download speeds went from 40K to anywhere from 400-600K. It made a huge difference!"

About Cymphonix

Cymphonix Corporation(TM), headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, uses patent-pending technology to reveal, optimize and automate Internet security. With deep-packet scanning technology, Cymphonix(TM) solutions address the issues created by evolving content - including web applications and bandwidth-intensive Web sites. Cymphonix(TM) products seamlessly integrate network protection, application performance, and traffic visibility into a single, easily managed solution. More information about Cymphonix(TM) can be found at www.cymphonix.com.

Source: Business Wire

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