TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

In a big computer networks, the centralized management management of a network is required to monitoring , planning, allocating , security, deploying, coordinating and configuring the computer networks. Network management means managing the administration and security,risk, reliability and performance network over a very large scale.


Being a network administrator, you are required to ensure that the security of your computer that is of your network is protected from unauthorized users and from hackers. For this purpose you need to restrict the user rights, implement the security policies, use firewalls and monitor the network and the performance with different tools. Some high end software produces real time graphical monitoring of the network activity.

There are certain network management systems and software being used to optimize resource allocation, report capabilities, real time fault detection and reduces network congestion. This software provides comprehensive management features such as monitoring,analyzing ,fault detection and security.

Certain software are used to monitor the bandwidth usage and the tracked information is stored in the database for analysis and monitoring. Through your database bandwidth usage information, you can analyze the bandwidth requirement of your network and plan for the increase of your bandwidth.

Some traffic management requires the use of hardware and software to manage traffic. For instance, the traffic engineering server is used to manage the network traffic. Apart from the hardware, software is used to controll and manage traffic in network.Some of the software used are:

1. softperfect network protocol analyzer. This software is used for debugging, maintaining and monitoring local area networks and the internet. It captures the data passing through your dial up or thruough your Ethernet network cad analyzes the data and presents it in a readable form.
2. softperfect bandwidth manager. This software management tool for windows offers a cost effective bandwidth control and quality of service based on built in prioritized rules.
3. softperfect print inspector. This is a print management and auditing solution for local area networks. It helps you manage your print job queued to any shared printer and provides easy access to the printer and printer server settings.
4. softperfect traffic meter. This traffic meter monitors your network traffic. With this software you can create the fullfeatured system for monitoring the internet traffic for specific users on your home or office network. It can built a graphic reports on the incoming and outgoing traffic per day, week or month.

REFERENCE

http://www.satsig.net/traffic/traffic management.htm
http://www.softperfect.com/