ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer NetFlow analyzer with bandwidth management with QoS policies, a customizable dashboard, alerts, and more.

Paessler PRTG Network Monitor Network monitoring tool with bandwidth monitoring and limiting features you can use to control consumption.

This combination of performance and traffic monitoring teams up a range of automated tools to manage traffic and keep networks in good health.

SolarWinds Bandwidth Analyzer Pack EDITOR’S CHOICE Our top pick for bandwidth limiting.

Here is our list of the best bandwidth limiter & controller tools: Some business activities and applications just generate a lot of traffic and will continue to gobble up all available capacity. When your topology and sub domains are optimized, you will probably find that traffic just increases and uses up all of the spare capacity you squeezed out of the network. For example, traffic shaping measures, such as queuing can really help improve the response times of time-sensitive applications.Įxamining traffic patterns can identify underutilized resources that could be moved to increase capacity on busy links.

There are a number of cost-free measures you can take to find extra capacity.

Traffic management requires some tough choices when the solution of just buying-in extra equipment to expand capacity is not available.

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