All,
I manage a site of around 550 users; For connection to our WAN and internet access we use a dedicated 8MB AVPN circuit provided by AT&T (this links us to the corporate MPLS cloud).
Anyway, to cut a long story short, quite often the circuit gets saturated with proxy traffic meaning that other business systems slow down. No matter how often we try and educate people to be careful with their usage, we still have problems...
Now to try and combat these issues, we are going to pilot routing all proxy/internet traffic over a separate line. This would mean minimal slow down on business systems and could act as resilience in case the main circuit fails.
This leads me to the question: who supplies decent business broadband?
The only two we've looked at for the moment is Virgin & Vodafone (obviously BT & AT&T are also candidates).
Anyway thanks for any suggestions!
Leon
P.S We do have QoS in place, but it seems to have difficulty distinguishing between proxy/internet traffic and other web based business critical systems!


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