eTelemetry, the leader in extracting real-time business information from network activity, today announced launch of Metron 2.0. This new release adds bandwidth rate limiting, and website blocking and filtering capabilities to Metron, a plug-and-play network appliance that monitors individual and department-level bandwidth usage and network activity.

Metron 2.0 ensures that online enterprise applications get bandwidth before non-work related sites. It offers multiple strategies to control access speeds to websites, including throttling down bandwidth available for websites that are not mission critical. Metron 2.0 also rate limits, filters, and blocks access to websites by person or department.

Metron is built on eTelemetry’s patented people-to-IP technology to identify the person by name and location in an organization. Metron’s ease of deployment, ease of use, and low total cost of ownership makes rate limiting, blocking, and filtering capabilities affordable for the SMB market.

“Now businesses large and small have the capability to optimize their bandwidth usage to ensure that it is used for the highest-priority applications,” said eTelemetry President and CEO, Ermis Sfakiyanudis. “The rate limiting, blocking, and filtering features in Metron will bring tremendous value to our customers, providing a comprehensive, low-cost solution for bandwidth and network management.”