January 30, 2004
Managing Bandwidth: Packet Shapers Control the Flow
Packet shapers are not well known outside of network administrators' offices, but they are necessary technology from now on. Without them, colleges would face a stark choice: Pay for tremendous amounts of Internet bandwidth or suffer endless headaches and traffic jams caused by file sharing and other online recreational activity.
The future is likely to include more demands on bandwidth, not fewer. Even if colleges
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