White Paper - Bandwidth Management and Website Filtering
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CyberReef Solutions provides bandwidth management and web filtering services to help businesses and governments control mobile data costs and ensure compliance. As mobile video usage increases exponentially, these services allow for per-user or organization-based bandwidth limits and limiting video quality to SD to reduce usage. The services also allow government agencies to filter content on loaned devices to comply with regulations protecting children online.
White Paper - Bandwidth Management and Website Filtering
- 1. White Paper – Bandwidth Management and Web Filtering CyberReef Solutions is delivering new services to maintain an acceptable Quality of Experience (QoE) for users of mobile data communications for Machine-To-Machine applications. As illustrated in the figure below, mobile data traffic is increasing at an exponential rate and the largest driver of this growth is Video. With the growth of Netflix, Hulu, YouTube, Amazon and other video based subscription services, businesses and governments that provide mobile devices to their employees and citizens, are looking to control bandwidth usage and costs. The Problem Businesses are under constant pressure to control the cost of employer paid-for cellular data services. Some employees are using their business mobile devices to access non- business related video and peer-to-peer (P2P) websites, thus driving increasing need for additional bandwidth. Employers are forced to increase their shared data plans or risks paying huge overage charges to carriers. Government agencies may provide Internet hotspots for citizens that can’t afford broadband services at their homes. Since the service is free to the user, there have been cases where users far exceed the maximum data allowances offered by carriers. The government is stuck with huge overages and no real way of controlling usage and costs. Agencies also have the added problem of ensuring child protection for mobile devices loaned to children. The Federal Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) requires that local and state governments filter websites that are inappropriate for children. The deployment of compliant systems and web filtering subscriptions can be cost prohibitive for departments with limited budget and IT resources.
- 2. The Solution CyberReef has developed a network-based solution that can address both business and government needs for controlling costs and compliance. CyberReef, in conjunction with the customer, can provide per user or per organization rate limiting. This puts the customer in total control of the allocation of its limited shared rate plan across all users. Given the need for the user to have an acceptable QoE, CyberReef ensures that all users can continue video streaming, but at Standard Definition (SD). Limiting users to SD, video data usage can be reduced by nearly half over High Definition (HD) streaming. In a particular case, we were able to reduce bandwidth usage by 20%, while only impacting 5% of total users. Government Agencies (primarily schools and libraries) loaning devices to citizens can comply with CIPA by filtering content in a variety of ways: 1. All loaned device traffic can be terminated at the school or library firewall. All traffic can be filtered using policies already in-place prior to going out to the Internet. 2. CyberReef has the ability to black list websites that have been identified as offensive per CIPA definitions. CyberReef Solutions provides the managed services needed to control bandwidth, mitigate overages and adhere to government regulations. Contact: CyberReef Solutions 415 Texas Street, Suite 300 Shreveport, LA 71101 318-497-7230 www.cyberreefsolutions.com