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Hardware Rate Limiting with Riverstone Networks

Overview To allow service providers (SPs) to effectively manage bandwidth, Riverstone's RS switch routers offer an extremely powerful feature called Hardware Rate Limiting (HRL). Metro SPs can use this feature to create tiered levels of service, offering pricing schemes such as dollar-per-byte-per-second ($/bps). Content Hosting Providers and ASPs can offer tiered Service Level Agreements (SLA) based on users or applications. Bandwidth on demand is no longer a myth. By simply "turning on" a port, SPs can now increase bandwidth without getting involved with the hardware.

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Publisher	RiverStone Networks	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	August 2003	Downloads	2
Format	White Papers
Topics	Switching

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