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Introduction
Smartbyte is a client installed software application that focuses on network
traffic optimization from a client system point-of-view. It aims to prioritize critical
applications over non-critical applications in terms of bandwidth and QoS.
Without an application like Smartbyte, bandwidth is equally divided among all
the applications that access Internet. This treats real time applications, video
streaming and other background downloads at equal levels of priority, not
considering a QoS factor of the consumer. Smartbyte can detect the
importance of application and allocates higher bandwidth to the critical
applications. It has 4 different levels of classification, 1 being the high priority
and 4 being low priority
This application is primarily developed to provide best experience to the end
user in limited bandwidth non-competing scenarios aimed at Inspiron and XPS
series.
Background
Smartbye is a tool developed exclusively for Dell consumer systems with
primary focus on Inspiron and XPS chain of models. Here are some of key
product definition aspects of Smartbyte:
Product Definition
SmartByte 2.5
SmartBytePro 3.0
Hardware dependency
HW agnostic
HW agnostic
Target Customer
Mainstream
Consumer
Mainstream
Commercial
Available on WiFi
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Available on WWAN
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Available on Ethernet
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Home Network Management
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Connection health monitor
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Advanced Stream Detect –
Application Detection
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Automatically prioritizes Video
and VoIP in optimal way
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Network Priority Levels
4
4
Ability to customize each
application’s network priority
By Category
(Real time,
streaming, other)
By Category (Real
time, streaming,
web, other)
Ability to score and rank access
points (AP)
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Speed to the router
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End-User Control over App
priority
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