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One of the fundamental questions in the business activity of service providers is how to allocate existing resources in a WAN computer network in order to meet customers’ requirements and manage the bandwidth effectively. The aim of the current paper is to compare the effectiveness of software and hardware-based bandwidth allocation solutions in real-life situations. In Sect. 1, bandwidth allocation solutions selected for the test are introduced. Section 2 addresses costs that an internet provider had to sustain in order to implement individual solutions. Section 3 summarizes installation and configuration issues. In Sect. 4 performance levels achieved are assessed, while in Sect. 5 – additional capabilities and statistics are discussed. The article is concluded with a tabular comparison of discussed approaches.
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Marcinkowski, B., Ostrowski, P. (2009). The Problem of Bandwidth Allocation in the Business Activity of Service Providers: Comparison and Analysis of Costs. In: Kwiecień, A., Gaj, P., Stera, P. (eds) Computer Networks. CN 2009. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 39. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02671-3_37
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