Untangle's Bandwidth Control enables you to control, monitor, and prioritize your network's bandwidth consumption. It allows you to optimally share the network traffic among your users by prioritizing important sites (Salesforce) and time-critical traffic (VOIP), deprioritizing unimportant sites (YouTube), and limiting unauthorized usage (BitTorrent).
Untangle's Bandwidth Control is similar to the Quality of Service (QoS) rules covered in Chapter 4, Untangle Advanced Configuration. In fact, when you enable Untangle's Bandwidth Control, you'll enable QoS rules. While QoS works with the bypassed traffic only, Untangle's Bandwidth Control can deal with traffic that enters the UVM. As a result, you can prioritize/deprioritize traffic based on its layer 7 information such as the used protocol, application, and destination sites. In addition, Untangle's Bandwidth Control enables you to set quotas for users to prevent network saturation.
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