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NetGuard Releases New Bandwidth Management Product Bandwidth Management 5 Things You Need To KnowGuardianPro Bandwidth Management works with NetGuard's Guardian or any firewall.  Controls Internet connection and traffic. Features automated setup, strategy wizard
defines
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management policy. Defines guaranteed, prioritized and
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quality of Internet service.By Steven Burke .............. As part of an aggressive push into the burgeoning Windows NT Internet bandwidth control market, NetGuard Inc. has launched a new program backed up by a multimillion-dollar marketing campaign. The Fairfax, Va.-based company, which makes the Guardian Windows NT firewall, is poised to ship its Bandwidth Management product in the next several weeks. Bandwidth Management is part of a new wave of Windows NT bandwidth control products aimed at easing the bandwidth crunch affecting many companies as they move more business to the Internet. Bandwidth Management, which has been under development for a year, has a street price of $4,980 for a 2M bandwidth license. The product lets administrators give priority Internet access to mission-critical applications. "This allows a company to set up a high-occupancy-vehicle lane on the Internet for critical applications," said George Pappas, NetGuard chief executive. "The bandwidth crunch is a huge problem. Many customers are having difficulty conducting business on the Internet because so many of their employees are getting on sites like ESPN." One company recently implemented Bandwidth Management after its chief financial officer was unable to get critical timely financial data from remote locations because of the bandwidth crunch. The problem was solved after the company installed Bandwidth Management, thereby giving priority access to the executive's critical application. NetGuard is a subsidiary of $23 million Israeli networking company LanOptics Inc., which gives it the resources necessary to build a strong channel. "We are being backed by a substantial corporation with lots of resources, so we can make the type of investments needed to build a business in the right way," said Pappas." We were the No. 2 firewall in Japan last year and have great momentum in the North American market."
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