Application Prioritization

The application prioritization feature determines the priority of the traffic that passes through the customer’s network. It distinguishes between critical and non-critical application traffic, routing it according to the priority assigned to it.

Data in network traffic comes from different applications. Some are mission-critical (like Zoom or VoIP solutions), while others are non-critical (like social media). Without rules and network policies, maintaining high performance for mission-critical applications can be difficult. Application prioritization can help prioritize business-critical applications over non-critical ones to ensure critical applications' performance and QoS is not affected by other applications. Adaptiv Networks can also help you to customize application prioritization based on business requirements. For instance, a brick-and-mortar retail store relies heavily on applications for financial transactions. It also requires some services to run continuously, such as inventory and logistics. On the other hand, there are occasions when employees use social media. This traffic can impact mission-critical apps, impacting the business as a whole. Using application prioritization, the store can ensure that critical applications are prioritized over the non-critical applications. This guarantees a seamless customer experience while allowing high performance and quality of experience for essential applications.

To help customers maximize the benefits of application prioritization, Adaptiv Networks provides several templates. These templates can be found under Application Prioritization in the left panel of a service order. Each template categorizes the applications and gives them a priority, with the highest being Priority 1 and the lowest being Priority 5. The default is Standard Business, which is used across all sites.

Application Prioritization Templates

The table below lists the application prioritization templates. To learn how to apply a template to the site, see Configuring Sites.

Template	Description
Digital Creation and Marketing	This template focuses on applications for creating digital content. It is ideal for businesses looking to create ads, marketing materials and other types of digital content.
Educational	This template prioritizes collaboration tools and education services applications such as Google Classroom, Coursera, etc. It is suggested for use by educational institutions and enterprises providing training and other learning experiences.
Gaming Production and Digital Creation	Gaming production template prioritizes all applications necessary for development of games and related digital content.
Healthcare	This template is suggested for businesses that require the prioritization of healthcare applications, such as AWS Health, PointClickCare, and MedCloud.
Home Office/Small Office	Ideal for small businesses and remote work environments. It prioritizes the collaboration tools as well as IT and communication applications.
Manufacturing and Logistics	In the Manufacturing and Logistics template, ERP & Project Management, Finance, Account, and billing applications are prioritized along with the collaboration tools needed for the day-to-day operations of these industries.
No Priority	Puts all application categories in the same priority – priority 3.
Office Workers	Beneficial for the office-based companies. It gives priority to all collaboration tools and customer relationship management (CRM) applications like Webex, Teams, Salesforce, Zoho, etc.
Public Sector	Ideal for public sector offices. It prioritizes applications in the following categories: collaboration tools, education services, finance, enterprise resource planning, and infrastructure, all of which play an important role in operating in the public sector.
Retail	Focuses on collaboration tools and finance and billing applications, which are essential for the functioning of the retail industry.
Standard Business	Recommended for businesses that want to prioritize collaboration tools.