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April 15, 2009
APconnections Releases Updated NetEqualizer
By David Sims, TMCnet Contributing Editor
Lafayette, Colorado-based APconnections has announced the release of its newest NetEqualizer (News - Alert) model, which company officials say is developed specifically with WISPs and small business users in mind.
How so? Well, this NetEqualizer release is designed for 10 megabits of traffic and 100 users, with potential room for expansion. “Furthermore,” company officials say, “in addition to offering all standard NetEqualizer features, this smaller model will be Power over Ethernet.”
Company officials say they developed the model specifically “to meet a growing demand both for an affordable traffic shaping device to help small businesses run VoIP concurrent with data traffic over their Internet link as well as a need for a shaping unit with PoE for the WISP market.” Since in a large wireless network, congestion often occurs at tower locations, APconnections officials think they have a winner with a lower-cost PoE version of the NetEqualizer giving wireless providers “advanced bandwidth control at or near their access distribution points.”
Joe D’Esopo, vice president of business development at APconnections, noted that about half of wireless network slowness comes from p2p (Bit Torrent) and video users overloading the access points: “We have had great success with our NE2000 series, but the price point of $2,500 was a bit too high to duplicate all over the network.” Pricing for the new model will be $1,200 for existing NetEqualizer users and $1,499 for non-customers purchasing their first unit.
How so? Well, this NetEqualizer release is designed for 10 megabits of traffic and 100 users, with potential room for expansion. “Furthermore,” company officials say, “in addition to offering all standard NetEqualizer features, this smaller model will be Power over Ethernet.”
Company officials say they developed the model specifically “to meet a growing demand both for an affordable traffic shaping device to help small businesses run VoIP concurrent with data traffic over their Internet link as well as a need for a shaping unit with PoE for the WISP market.” Since in a large wireless network, congestion often occurs at tower locations, APconnections officials think they have a winner with a lower-cost PoE version of the NetEqualizer giving wireless providers “advanced bandwidth control at or near their access distribution points.”
Joe D’Esopo, vice president of business development at APconnections, noted that about half of wireless network slowness comes from p2p (Bit Torrent) and video users overloading the access points: “We have had great success with our NE2000 series, but the price point of $2,500 was a bit too high to duplicate all over the network.” Pricing for the new model will be $1,200 for existing NetEqualizer users and $1,499 for non-customers purchasing their first unit.
When the network is congested, company officials explain, NetEqualizer’s “behavior shaping” technology gives priority to latency sensitive applications, such as VoIP and e-mail, and “controls network flow for the best WAN optimization.
Last November, TMCnet’s Anshu Shrivastava reported that APconnections announced a one-gigabit enhancement to NetEqualizer.
The largest model, the NE-3000, is rated for 350 megabits, she reported Eli Riles, vice president of sales at APconnections as saying: “However, customers were looking for a higher-end machine, and this enhancement of one-gigabit fulfills that need.”
The largest model, the NE-3000, is rated for 350 megabits, she reported Eli Riles, vice president of sales at APconnections as saying: “However, customers were looking for a higher-end machine, and this enhancement of one-gigabit fulfills that need.”
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David Sims is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of David’s articles, please visit his columnist page. He also blogs for TMCnet here.
Edited by Michael Dinan
