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6/28/2001
The results at Pacific University, Krupicka said, were even better than he expected. Within hours of installing the PacketShaper, he and the others on the IT team were getting calls from students and faculty telling them how much better their Web access was. And although some students missed being able to access the peer-to-peer sharing programs, most recognized that they were also much better able to get on the Internet to do their homework.
Krupicka notes that PacketShaper has been a useful diagnostic tool, as well. "Recently our network came to a crashing halt. We were able to determine where the troublesome traffic was coming from," he says.
Krupicka estimates that the tool is saving Pacific University about a year of time before they'll have to add more bandwidth, so "in that sense it is paying for itself," he notes. His department was so pleased with the results that they recently hosted a seminar for the Pacific Northwest HEAT (Higher Education and Technology) consortium of local colleges on bandwidth management. Co-sponsored by the campus's new Berglund Center for Internet Studies, with support from vendors (including Packeteer, Cisco, Verio, and AdTran), they guided IT professionals from 14 neighboring colleges through various problems and solutions.
For more information, contact Ted Krupicka at krupicka@pacificu.edu or (503) 359-2927.
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