Case Study: North Central Texas College achieves reliable bandwidth control and restored network management with ContentWatch's ContentProtect Security Appliance

Manage Bandwidth and Take Back Control with the ContentProtect Security Appliance

North Central Texas College, the oldest continuously operating public two-year college in Texas, struggled to manage limited bandwidth across roughly 1,000 computers at three locations serving more than 8,000 students; recurring network slowdowns left IT unable to identify who or where large downloads originated. To address monitoring, bandwidth control and content management the college evaluated options and selected ContentWatch’s ContentProtect Security Appliance.

ContentWatch’s ContentProtect Security Appliance was deployed to show per-user and per-workstation bandwidth usage, enforce group-based throttling, block proxy circumvention, and provide content filtering plus built-in anti-virus/spyware. As a result, IT can now quickly pinpoint and restrict bandwidth hogs instead of crippling users, enable campus wireless that had been impractical before, and restore reliable network performance—giving North Central Texas College back control of its network and a more productive learning environment.

North Central Texas College

Denise Cason

IT Department