The Bandwidth Consumption Monster

 
Bandwidth needs continue to grow at approximately 50% per year. More and more businesses are looking to run certain software, stream video etc. IT Directors and CIOs need to prepare themselves for bandwidth increases on the fly. At the same time they cannot kill their budget for the year by throwing it all into increasing speeds. Companies like TW Telecom, Masergy and XO Communication have some great, affordable solutions to deal with this issue.

There is the Dynamic Capacity tool from TW Telecom and Masergy that allows businesses to increase their bandwidth by up to 300% in real time. It also allows you to program bandwidth increases and decreases in the future at a specific date and time to accommodate for those high traffic times. XO Communications offers an APM (Applications Performance Management) tool which allows the IT staff to monitor bandwidth usage down to the user level and let them discover where all of their bandwidth is going.

Of course Cloud is helping with this problem, but for those people that are still hesitant to go that way, there are still many available options to deal with the ever growing Bandwidth Monster