Swan

Swan is a Linux-based bandwidth control and management product aimed at the ISP and Enterprise market.

Swan is built upon algorithms for bandwidth control. The vendor states that, irrespective of any application software like DAP, Download accelerator, etc., the bandwidth consumed remains in the allocated realms. The GUI enables allocation in Kbits/sec. Monitoring is dynamic with a time lag of 2 seconds. Also incorporated are MRTG graphs, which show day-to-day, weekly, monthly and yearly bandwidth usage statistics.

In order to decrease time latency and bandwidth consumption, a caching mechanism forms the backbone. The caching algorithm enables repetitive page requests to be served from the Swan server itself rather than from the Web.

Also included are console based access terminals to specify the server parameters like IP addresses, DNS servers, etc. Bandwidth monitoring can be done up to a 2-second resolution. Server shutdown/start, browsing shutdown, data backup/recovery, etc. are also facilitated. The console can be accessed over the Internet / intranet over a secure shell.

Although based entirely on Linux, Swan allows administration through a Graphical User Interface.

Feature overview:

- Allots bandwidth per user; restricts user on time and byte download basis

- Manage users: List and perform search for users, display online active users, activate/deactivate users, generate detail logs for users, track and bind MAC address of users

- Store log reports for specific period

- Total bandwidth monitoring (uplink and downlink)

- Additional console based server administration; Internet usage reports

- Bandwidth sharing within pool/group

- Individual messaging and mass messaging

- Authentication enable/disable per user and per pool

- Bandwidth clubbing (as an add-on module)

- Enable/disable mail relay per network and per user

- Real IP support

- Acts as an SMTP Relay Server