HughesON Network Solutions with Hughes Active Technologies August 18, 2013 Resource Type White Papers Download white paper Broadband Quality-of-Service (QoS) and Bandwidth Capacity Evaluation Today's distributed organizations require networking solutions that deliver high capacity and excellent application performance. Common approaches to addressing these challenges include the addition of a WAN optimization appliance and/or provisioning. Ethernet access to each branch location. However, this approach, while suitable for large sites, is too costly and complex for wide deployment to smaller branch locations.