Formulate bandwidth management policies to solve network congestion problems

Informatization construction is the construction of productivity. After the completion of Informatization infrastructure construction, more and more businesses in enterprises begin to rely on network O & M, in addition to key business systems such as ERP, CRM, OA, e-commerce, and video conferencing, there are also non-key business applications such as P2P downloads, online games, online videos, and online stock trading, the formation of complex network application "pulse ". However, just as a room is crowded with people, everyone wants to talk and talk at the same time. Without good bandwidth planning and policies, network congestion will become a nightmare for enterprises.

What will happen to enterprises if the Internet is out of control?

In the office, I often hear people complain, "Why is the network speed so slow ?", Almost all enterprises' network systems have the following problems: bandwidth resources are occupied by a large number of non-critical services, slow network speeds and low efficiency, which increases the overall cost of enterprises. Through this phenomenon, we can see several problems:

1. bandwidth resources may be being abused:

Is the bandwidth really insufficient? In some micro companies, a k adsl would be enough for 20 employees to access and send and receive emails. So why is the network speed slow for companies with a bandwidth of several or more MB? In fact, bandwidth is often enough, but there is a lack of bandwidth management, and bandwidth is abused unlimitedly, leading to insufficient bandwidth protection for normal work and key services.

2. slow network speed may lead to slow work:

The email cannot be sent out, the webpage cannot be opened, and the video conference may be interrupted. Foreign employees cannot remotely log on to the CRM system. When Employees complain about slow network speeds, their work efficiency is also affected.

3. Key services are affected by low network speed:

Sometimes the ERP system cannot be connected, causing data loss in severe cases. Important video meetings are interrupted once in a few minutes, video and audio latencies are too long, emails cannot be sent and received, and important customers cannot communicate normally.

According to a survey released by China Unicom, P2P applications represented by BT, eDonkey, KaZaA, and eMull consume more than 40% of the effective network bandwidth, normal WEB access consumes 30% of the bandwidth. P2P users may feel the pleasure of fast download, but the impact on key business systems of enterprises is fatal.

Yuan Shengang, CEO of Beijing wangkang Technology Co., Ltd., believes: "bandwidth, as one of the important resources of an enterprise, is equivalent to the human resources and financial resources of an enterprise and plays a key role in the future development of an enterprise, CIOs should pay attention to bandwidth allocation and management. Only by ensuring normal work and safe and efficient operation of key services can they significantly improve the production efficiency of enterprises and reflect the value of IT construction."

Formulate management policies to solve Network Congestion

In the past, enterprises chose to increase their bandwidth to ensure smooth IT systems. However, this additional investment is undoubtedly huge and makes system regulation more complex.

"In bandwidth management, we must identify who? At what time? Can I use a certain network application? How much bandwidth does it have ?" Yuan Shengang, CEO of wangkang technology, put forward the following suggestion: "bandwidth management should be oriented to users or applications, with time as the latitude, and bandwidth value as the lever to formulate fine management and allocation policies, it truly helps enterprises increase bandwidth value."

If the network is congested by accident, this is quite normal. However, if your network experiences frequent data re-transmission and congestion, one thing is certain-if you do not properly handle the network congestion, it will only get worse.