(Taipei — Aug 15th, 2008)
GenieNRM today announced that National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) has deployed the GenieNPC Solution to mitigate network abuses on its network and optimize its network bandwidth utilization.

The NTHU campus network serves approximately 8,500 students and 500 faculty professors. The campus network internally includes the administration department sub-network, academic department sub-network, dormitory sub-network and network operation center network, and it externally connects to the Taiwan academic network (TANet), other university campus networks and the Internet. The different types of sub-networks in the NTHU campus network have their own traffic characteristics and different network application distributions. Serving as the campus network of one of the highest education institutions in Taiwan, the major purpose of NTHU campus network is to support the teaching and research activities. Therefore, how to guarantee bandwidths to the priority applications of academic usage, and in the meanwhile throttle undesired application traffics is a critical requirement of NTHU campus network managers. Also, Ministry of Education (MOE) has established a regulation of preventing improper information and usage of academic networks. When connecting to TANets, schools need to establish a mechanism to oversee the improper use of campus networks and manage web flow in order to prevent academic resources from being abused. In order to address these challenges, NTHU started to look for a traffic controlling device to provide precise traffic information enabling the network managers to build desired policies on the network traffic usage and then control the network traffic for effectively enforcing the network usage policies.

After a survey of a number of solutions, NTHU purchased and successfully deployed GenieNPC in its network to perform the important tasks of providing application-level visibility and enabling policy control. GenieNPC is a policy traffic service control system capable of performing traffic classification and control up to L7. Through its flexible bandwidth policy configuration, GenieNPC enables NTHU network managers to block unwanted application (e.g. Foxy) bandwidth consumption, prevent network abuse (e.g. improper information sharing, security threats, etc,), ensure academic-critical application, and offer differentiated services to different group of users. GenieNPC is currently managing the multiple GbE traffic links in the NTHU’s campus network, and these are the aggregated links from their student dormitory sub-network, academic department sub-network and administration sub-network to the network core.

After the traffic management policies are being executed by GenieNPC, the notice frequency of improper network information warning sent by MOE to NTHU network management is hugely reduced. Also since the execution, the latency issues in time-critical applications and academic-relevant applications have been effectively resolved. NTHU now can manage its network to accommodate growing applications, mitigate improper network activities and most importantly, serve its academic mission.

“NTHU is happy about GenieNPC’s performance of better control the bandwidth usage, so that they re-purchased more GenieNPC in a year after their first GenieNPC system deployment in 2007,” said Po-wen Tseng, Senior Director of Product Marketing, GenieNRM. "The success story that prestigious high education institutions such as NTHU are using GenieNRM’s DPI technologies validates the fact that our solutions are the most effective, reliable and scalable traffic control solutions in the industry.”