The Akab architecture is based on AkabSensors - a family of appliances for management of network data both directly acquired or received from other network appliances/applications.

AkabSensors have crucial role in system monitoring as they provide data to various Anomaly Detection and Event Correlation algorithms run in other higher level appliances.

The AkabSensor family consists of various specialized appliances divided in two groups, Security Management and Network Management appliances: security audit (AS-SA), intrusion detection (AS-ID), bandwidth management (AS-BM), traffic monitoring (AS-TM), and log server (AS-LS).

All AkabSensor appliances for Network Management (BM, TM and LS) are available in stand-alone configuration as well.

AkabSensor Bandwidth Management (referred shortly as AS-BM) is an appliance specially designed for management of network traffic and bandwidth partitioning.

AS-BM

AS-BM allows to assign bandwidth "quotas" inside a network sub-net according to the following criteria:

• Application
• Time
• User/User Groups
• Communication Port/Protocol
• IP Address

Communication with Active Directory and LDAP

Most important and innovative characteristic of AS-BM is the possibility to retrieve directly users, user groups and containers from the Windows Active Directory or LDAP without a user agent.

High Availability

To ensure proper and continuous network function every AS-BM appliance is supplied with a secondary twin stand-by appliance (fail-over).

Cost Control

Network bandwidth management (AS-BM) gives better control over the cost of access to resources like Internet and WAN Links. It assures that different level users and applications can use network resources according to their corespondent needs.

Risk Control

Implementation of network bandwidth management system guarantees the availability of connections and resources over the network. Bandwidth management rules provide preventive policy against illegal user or application operations.

Better Network Performance

Network bandwidth management (AS-BM) ensures the response time of mission-critical applications (e-mail service, conference calls, transactions, etc.) by prioritizing their traffic or guaranteeing them a portion of bandwidth.

AS-BM Assets

When compared to Windows 2000 environment applications which access MS-AD system, such as Windows Proxy Server, AS-BM is certainly less complex and more stable.

AS-BM Configuration

AS-BM is available in different configurations according to the network bandwidth and number of appliances to manage.