An Effective Bandwidth Management by Compression Technique for Performance Enhancement in a System

Bandwidth management is a generic term that describes the various techniques, technologies, tools and policies employed by an organization to enable the most efficient use of its bandwidth resources „Efficient use‟ means both the minimization of unnecessary bandwidth consumption and the delivery of the best possible levels of service to users.‟ Bandwidth resources‟ refers to the bandwidth of a network, which might be a local network, a Regional Area Network or fields units . HTTP compression is a tool for a web-server to compress content before sending it to the client, thereby reducing the amount of data sent over the network. In addition to typical savings of 60%85% in bandwidth cost, HTTP compression also improves the end-user experience by reducing the pageload latency. For these reasons, HTTP compression is considered an essential tool in today‟s web supported by all web-servers and browsers, and used by over 95% of the leading websites. Further to add more bandwidth there is need of putting extra hardware which will cost more. Data compression plays an important role in improving the performance of low bandwidth network. Among other performance enhancement techniques, data compression is the most suitable and economical way to further improve network. This is because data compression technique is much simpler and can be implemented easily and freely available and no complicated hardware configuration is required. Thus, data compression is adopted in the proposed case study.