PacketSeeker appliances provide several performance and price points to meet your deployment requirements. 1500, 2500, 6500, 9500, and 10000 series range from 128kbps to 1 Gbps of full duplex throughput.

PacketSeeker installs easily behind the WAN or Internet access router, transparent to your existing infrastructure. After supplying basic IP configuration information (IP Address, gateway, DNS server, etc), turn on Auto-discovery to immediately begin discovering, classifying and measuring traffic.

Application-intelligence tracks the true nature of traffic. PacketSeeker's application-intelligent Layer 7 classification engine automatically identifies hundreds of applications by their unique signatures, pinpointing applications such as SAP, Citrix, Oracle, TN3270, and KaZaA. These include applications that negotiate dynamic port assignments and shifty peer-to-peer applications, which can masquerade as unsuspicious traffic and elude detection from other monitoring devices. Sub-classify critical network traffic types to create thousands of Layer-7 custom signatures. Classification parameters include:

• Advanced Layer-7 application signatures
• Sub-classifications including Oracle (by database) HTTP (by URL, Web service, content type, MIME type), Citrix (by published application or priority), VoIP (by protocol or CODECs)
• Layer-2 MAC address
• Layer-3 IP addresses, address ranges, subnets, or host lists
• Layer-4 UDP and TCP ports, port ranges, and port lists
• QoS markings, including DiffServ, IP-ToS, IP-CoS, IP precedence
• MPLS label and label ranges
• Frame relay interface, PVC/DLCI, ATM PVC, or ATM interface
• ISL-VLAN, 802.1q-VLAN, 802.1p-LAN QoS Marking

Network Utilisation lets you analyse resource allocation and impacts. Leveraging application-intelligent classification, PacketSeeker presents usage "tops" to quickly identify traffic with the greatest impact on your performance - top users, top web pages, top applications. Analysis of more than 60 metrics per application include detailed information on peak and average traffic rates, bandwidth and resource allocation, network efficiency, packet distributions, dropped packets and more.

PacketSeeker's analysis of network behaviour includes link-level intelligence that classifies by frame-relay or ATM PVC, IP subnet, MPLS paths, Ethernet MAC, and VLANs.

Automatically collect additional detail when needed. Using the pre-defined or custom added Adaptive Response agents, PacketSeeker can automatically collect additional detailed information if monitored thresholds have been exceeded. The additional information collected can range from automatically generated and e-mailed reports to starting a Packet Capture.

PacketSeeker integrates transparently into your network. PacketSeeker installs with simple IP configuration information, with no changes to your switching, routing or application infrastructure, and operates as a transparent in-line bridge, or optionally off of a mirror/span port or network tap. Hardware bypass and hot standby ensure PacketSeeker doesn't block traffic, while LAN Expansion Modules provide flexibility to fit in complex switched networks.

On-board reporting, centralised reporting, and integration into management application infrastructure makes it easy to gather and distribute information. PacketSeeker has extensive onboard reporting accessible by Web interface for statistics stored as long as two months - reports, graphs, and statistics. With service-level agreements, you can define performance standards, compare actual performance with service-level goals, and generate reports on SLA compliance. ReportCenter provides the ability to leverage detailed statistics across large deployments. ReportCenter's centralised views track network performance and provide fast drilldown, scalable performance, and simple report distribution of network utilisation and application performance, for up to 1000 PacketSeekers. In addition, SNMP and XML APIs are used to integrate with systems from leading vendors like HP, InfoVista, Concord, and Aprisma.

Upgrade to fix problems you discover. After PacketSeeker traffic monitoring helps you discover and find the causes of performance issues, you can address these problems by upgrading to a PacketShaper or PacketShaper Xpress with a software key upgrade.

• Increase visibility and simplify troubleshooting by isolating performance issues quickly.
• Identify the true nature of traffic and differentiate between mission-critical, recreational, and malicious traffic types, even over common ports.
• Monitor utilisation and performance by link, application, or users.
• Track application response times and quickly identify if issues are server- or network-related
• Establish and monitor service-level agreements for critical applications or links.
• Identify misbehaving users and malicious traffic.
• Provide detailed performance diagnostics that include connection profiling and server responses (TCP Health), PacketCapture, traffic forensic history and more.

• Identify applications with Layer 7 intelligence, network information, and behaviour tracking to accurately identify and track network traffic. Differentiate between applications that masquerade common ports (port 21, port 80, etc), masquerade (P2P) hop ports (stateful applications), or tunnel.
• AutoDiscovery automatically discovers, classifies and measures traffic.
• Flexible classification methodology and sub-classification techniques on HTTP, Oracle, Citrix, and other applications enable granular traffic categorisation for thousands of application types.
• Link-level intelligence includes MPLS, VLAN, DiffServ, IP address, port & TOS, frame relay and ATM VC information.
• Measure network and application utilisation, including peaks, averages, top talkers and top listeners, network efficiency, bytes, compression rates, bytes transferred and saved.
• Measure response times across applications, providing network delay, server delay, and congestion metrics.
• Service-level tracking and management: Performance thresholds, events, and synthetic transactions to provide active response-time and availability statistics.

Topologies and Deployment

PacketSeeker and PacketShaper appliances fit seamlessly into your IP network, whether you rely on frame-relay, MPLS, IP-VPN, ATM, point-to-point, or wireless WAN or Internet links. Multiple deployment options enable you to quickly gain visibility and get control over application performance. This flexibility delivers the right fit for your network:

• Scalable - PacketSeeker and PacketShaper appliances provide several performance and price points to meet your deployment requirements. 1500, 2500, 6500, 9500, and 10000 series range from 128 Kbps to 1 Gbps full duplex throughput.

Model	Capacity
PacketShaper 1500	Up to 2M
PacketShaper 2500	Up to 10M
PacketShaper 6500	Up to 100M
PacketShaper 9500	Up to 500M
PacketShaper 10000	Up to 1G

• Simple Deployment - PacketSeeker and PacketShaper appliances install easily behind the WAN or Internet access router. After supplying basic IP configuration information (IP Address, gateway, DNS server, etc), turn on Auto-discovery to immediately begin discovering, classifying and measuring traffic.
• Transparent to Existing Infrastructure - The appliance operates as an in-line bridge, transparent to your router, switch, and application infrastructure. Packeteer does not require (but does support) mirror ports or taps, and does not require changes to your routing tables or application infrastructure.

• Flexible Topology Fits for Multiple LAN and Switched Environments - LAN Expansion Modules (LEM) are available on 2500, 6500, 9500, and 10000 series models. You can utilise LEM cards to connect multiple LANs or switch ports to a single appliance, including DMZ configurations, providing extra flexibility for today's complex switched networks.
• High Availability - In the event of failure, automatic hardware bypass prevents PacketSeeker and PacketShaper from blocking traffic. In addition, two appliances can be configured in Direct Standby mode, with each PacketShaper maintaining state on all flows, and providing shaping and monitoring redundancy for all traffic. Finally, access link monitoring enables automatic adjustment of policies when a backup link is activated and active adjustment of traffic rates based on link congestion.

Functional Options:		Site Options:
Monitor - PacketSeeker provides application-intelligent visibility, including network utilisation, application response-time management and performance, service level and performance monitoring, on-board reporting and more... Monitor and Shape - Add traffic shaping and explicit policy control over network application traffic by upgrading from PacketSeeker to PacketShaper via a software key. Use PacketShaper to contain, pace, protect, provision mark, and control access, in addition to all the application-intelligent traffic monitoring included in PacketSeeker. Monitor, Shape, and Accelerate - Add PacketShaper's Xpress™ option to increase effective bandwidth and improve application performance at bandwidth-constrained branch sites. By leveraging application-intelligent monitoring, PacketShaper Xpress can apply the most effective compression techniques to different types of traffic. Traffic shaping ensures that mission-critical traffic realises the gains and works to improve end-to-end latency. Finally, ActiveTunnel technology makes the Xpress option simple to set up and manage.		Main Site WAN - Monitor and shape traffic for multiple sites where application traffic flows to a single central site in a hub-and-spoke topology. Main Site Internet Link - Monitor and shape traffic flowing through Internet service link including protection VPN traffic and general Internet traffic backhauled through WAN. Distributed Branch or Multi-Main Site - As applications are distributed to multiple main sites or branch offices, or to enable PacketShaper Xpress, deploy at multiple locations to monitor and shape meshed application flows.