How will Dell Software Distribution impact the performance of my network?
Dell Software Distribution is designed to have the minimum amount of impact on your network bandwidth. Distribution of software is policy driven and gives you the ability to minimize the utilization on your network while making sure that critical updates get to the devices that need them as soon as possible. You can limit the amount of bandwidth per device and per location based on the time of day, days of the week and criticality of the distribution, so that the lion’s share of software distributions occur at off-work hours and the impact on the performance of each device and the bandwidth consumed for each network node is minimized for most distributions. Also, the service allows you designate a local device as a relay point that will act as a proxy between the managed devices and the Internet. As the managed devices request files from the service, the proxy machine will download the necessary files and will serve them to the managed devices through the local area network, minimizing
