The Rules Interfaces enable the creation and management of the rules that will be used to control the traffic flows.

Interfaces include:

- Pie chart interface allowing bandwidth allocation segments to be easily and quickly created;

- Tabular views summarising the rules.

IP Flows 1,200,000

Shaping circuits (Switches) 1 (+ 2 optional)

Shaping rate – Total throughput (in and out) 1,000 Mb/s

Maximum Static Partitions 2,048

Maximum Dynamic Partitions 2,048/switch

Maximum IP Hosts 224,000

Configuration

Precision Start Application Yes

External LCD (+ Keypad) Yes

Policy Source

Local Policy Configuration Yes

Single Policy Configuration Screen Yes

SNMP Yes

Accounting

SQL Accounting Yes

SNMP Export Yes

Traffic Classification (Per Flow)

IPaddress/range/subnet/MAC address and port Yes

Network protocols TCP/UDP/ICMP/IGMP Yes

DNS for ingress or egress traffic Yes

Netbios interface allows active network inspection for business critical users, work groups, work domains and work stations. Yes

Administrator flow definition, combines multiple packet characteristics to define flow e.g. TTL, ToS, Packet length, Protocol, Ports Yes

IP/MAC Address and port Yes

ISL/802.1q Classification Yes

DiffServ/ToS Yes

HTTP URL Yes

Application protocol monitoring/control (Layer 7) Yes

User bandwidth control for VPN clients Yes

Hierarchy of policy rules - outbound & inbound traffic management Yes

Minimum/maximum/borrow bandwidth enforcement per flow Yes

Levels of priorities Yes

Per flow guaranteed bandwidth, burst rate Yes

Fairness between traffic flows – users -applications Yes

Packet Shaping

Admission Control (ACL) Yes

TCP & UDP Rate control Yes

DiffServ/ToS/CoS Marking Yes

Proactive TCP Flow Control Yes

Packet Queuing control Yes

Flow based traffic control Yes

Fairness of equal flows Yes

Per class bandwidth limits Yes

Per class Priority queuing Yes

Relative Priority Weighting Yes

Dynamic Host Limits Yes

Connection number limits Yes

Bandwidth "borrowing" Yes

Monitoring

Reports Yes

Top Clients/Servers Yes

Top Applications Yes

Total Bandwidth utilisation Yes

Historical Data Store Yes

Slowest Clients/Servers Yes

Top Traffic Classes/Utilisation Yes

Dropped Packets/Efficiency Yes

Response times Yes

TCP Connection Metrics Yes

Reliability

Redundant support unit Yes

Automatic layer 1 bypass Yes

Bypass on non-fatal error Yes

Stream based Compression Yes

Exbander MAS compatible Yes

Fast Ethernet – Copper Yes

Gigabit Ethernet – Copper Yes

Gigabit Ethernet – Fibre Yes (Optional)

Fast Ethernet Management Yes

Console – DB – 9 Yes

Physical

Operating Environment:

- Temperature: 5 to 40°C (67 to 130°F)

- Humidity 20% to 90% RH

Storage Environment:

- Temperature: 0 to 70°C (58 to 184°F)

- Humidity 5% to 95% RH

Serial Console Port: