Exinda Education

K-12 Education:

Do you experience lags when streaming educational programming to classrooms and students’ desktops? Are your students, faculty and staff able to make the most of online learning systems like Blackboard? Do your teachers complain of slow or inconsistent access to online assessments?

Exinda bandwidth management solutions provide an easy and cost-effective way to ensure the performance of your critical applications. By prioritizing and accelerating learning and administrative applications across educational networks, Exinda has helped hundreds of schools and school districts worldwide deliver consistent application performance, improve bandwidth utilization and reduce costs.

With Exinda, schools can monitor network usage and set policies that control access to sites such as YouTube and FaceBook. Exinda also provides network optimization and application acceleration so that schools can make the most of their bandwidth. The Exinda network appliance is easy to implement and requires minimal manual intervention, allowing busy administrators to focus on other high-priority tasks.

Key Features and Benefits:

• Improve response times for online assessments
• Accelerate online learning systems like Blackboard
• Classify and prioritize applications based on their educational value
• Control student access to inappropriate web sites and applications
• Eliminate delays in streaming educational content into the classroom
• Release the full benefits of video streaming, e-books and distance education

Higher Education:

Universities face a unique set of WAN performance challenges. Laptops and wireless Internet access, satellite campuses, dormitories, libraries and eLearning applications all contribute to an enormous volume of traffic passing across the WAN. Universities specializing in scientific and medical research must also facilitate real-time collaboration between peers and support bandwidth-intensive online applications.

Exinda helps universities monitor, control and optimize their WANs so that students experience consistent network access. With Exinda, universities can implement policies to limit or restrict usage so that recreational traffic such as P2P file sharing and social networking doesn’t impede network performance. Exinda allows universities to establish fair-sharing and usage controls in such a way that they are as non-intrusive as possible to tuition-paying students. This allows institutions to balance the needs of students with the requirement to maintain network and application performance while lowering network operating costs.

Key Features and Benefits:

• Control recreational usage and P2P traffic that threatens network performance
• Accelerate legitimate eLearning, research and administrative applications
• Make the most of available network resources and defer bandwidth upgrades
• Optimize the WAN so satellite campuses and remote users experience near LAN-like speed

Libraries:

Library systems, whether public or private, must provide a balance between open community access to the internet and speed and usability of critical applications across the library network. While bandwidth may be plentiful, it can quickly reach capacity with chatty P2P applications and rich media such as audio and video streaming. Without effective controls, recreational and bandwidth intensive traffic can saturate the network and slow the performance of applications critical to libraries’ day-to-day functions.

Exinda allows libraries to monitor, control and optimize their networks so that the user community can be served without compromising critical application performance. Exinda provides visibility into traffic across the network including bandwidth-heavy recreational traffic. Equipped with this knowledge, policies can be set that allocate bandwidth for different types of Internet traffic, thereby ensuring that low-priority traffic cannot impact application performance. The comprehensive Exinda solution lets libraries control their network resources to ensure optimal performance without having to take heavy-handed steps to police user activity.

Key Features and Benefits:

• View real-time and historical reports for visibility into network activity and performance
• Allocate bandwidth to critical applications to ensure performance
• Control recreational network usage and throttle bandwidth to certain low-priority traffic
• Intelligently accelerate critical applications within the library network
• Make the most of available network resources and defer costly bandwidth upgrades