Bandwidth Management in Educational Campuses

Internet, wired or wireless, has become an indispenable and vital commodity of the modern education system. It is not only a source of information but also provides avenues for transactions like payment of fees, payment of utility bills, banking, online shopping etc. But as it is rightly said that with Good comes the Evil, there are multiple threats associated with the usage of internet. The growing number of cyber offences over the years have led to the adoption of advanced secuirty mechanisms by various institutions.

Inventum provides comprehensive bandwidth management solutions that allow network administrators to monitor, control and optimize the usage of Internet within their institutions. Inventum Service Gateways provide a 'plug n play' single box solution eliminating the need of deploying and managing multiple appliances to manage large and complex networks. Some of the key features of the Inventum Service Gateway includes;

• Authentication of users through unique username & password providing an additional layer of security whenever users try to access internet
• Monitor and control usage of bandwidth by creating seperate plans for faculty, students and visitors. Each plan having different rules in terms of download quota, download speed, access or denial to certain websites etc.
•  The ability to block unwanted sites and objectionable content that may lead to excessive wastage of bandwidth
• Extensive graphical reports of usage pattern of students allow administartors to analyse student behaviours and apply different rules for different group of students
• Storing history of websites visited by users from their devices keeps the institution within legal boundaries and it can keep a check on terrorist activities
• Flexi charging allows the institution to provide free Internet access to staff and students while charging visitors and guests for the same

The above solution is scalable to millions of users and allows centralized bandwidth management of multiple institutions within the same group that may be located at different locations. The availability of such solutions allows network administrators to sleep sound instead of having sleepless nights.