Content security gets an Optenet boost

BANGALORE, INDIA: Optenet, an IT security company that provides content filtering solutions, today announced it has enhanced its content security suite to include new bandwidth optimization functionality.

The new security suite, Optenet Bandwidth Management (OBM), offers service providers a sophisticated management tool that enables highly granular, real-time network traffic control, said a press release.

The bandwidth optimization functionality can be utilized by service providers within their own networks and can also be offered to enterprise customers as a service.

With this, service providers and enterprises can limit the resources consumed by a connection, an IP address, or a traffic group, and can reduce network congestion caused by increasingly popular practices such as streaming video and downloading large multimedia files, the release added.

Unlike traditional bandwidth optimization solutions that indiscriminately block all bandwidth-intensive applications within a corporate firewall, OBM uses Optenet's unique filtering and granular categorization technology to balance resource utilization, it said.

"In order to ensure performance for all business processes it's critical for both enterprises and service providers to control their network traffic in real-time," said Javier Peralta, sales director for Optenet in the UK.

With this highly customizable tool, network administrators can set bandwidth usage policies by user, group, work role, network and time of day and create upstream and downstream traffic limits, which deny new bandwidth requests when the total traffic exceeds a predefined threshold, the release pointed out.