Packeteer's all-in-one WAN optimization technologies build on each other to form an "intelligent overlay" that bridges the gap between IP networks and the branch office—ensuring optimal application performance and end user experience at every location.

74 Percent of the World's Largest Companies use PacketShaper to:

· Monitor 500+ applications with Layer 7 Plus network visibility
· Shape traffic in real-time with flexible policy-based QoS control
· Accelerate and compress applications for maximum performance
· Deploy and control multiple units with centralized management and reporting

Monitoring Module

The PacketShaper Monitoring Module provides deep insight into application traffic so you can identify, measure and manage all types - customer, business, recreational and miscellaneous - even when sharing common ports.

· Identify Applications - Classify applications on your network with Layer 7 Plus technology, which automatically identifies applications and allows you to separate business from pleasure.

· Monitor Utilization and Performance - Audit utilization and performance by links, users or applications—such as business critical, recreational and unsanctioned traffic types.

· Track Application Response Time - Track application response times, isolate performance issues and identify server- or network-related issues.

· Monitor Service-Level Agreements - Monitor service-level agreements (SLAs) for critical applications or links.

· Access Performance Diagnostics - Access performance diagnostics including connection profiling and server responses (TCP Health), traffic captures, traffic forensic history and more.

Shaping Module

Shape traffic, ensure Quality of Service (QoS) and provide latency-sensitive, business-critical applications with the bandwidth they need to perform at their peak using flexible policy-based control.

· Recreational Application Capping/Blocking - Simply move the recreational applications into a fold and partition the bandwidth as you see fit.

· DDoS, Virus and Worm Propagation Suppression - Enhance the security of your network and application infrastructure by finding and stopping infected PCs and tracking every flow through the network.

· Critical Application Performance Assurance - Ensure business-critical applications have the resources they need to operate effectively over the WAN and Internet.

· Bandwidth Allocation for Remote Sites with Inbound QoS - With patented TCP rate control, PacketShaper determines the sending rates of computers at the far end of the network—delivering bi-directional QoS.

· Application Prioritisation and Session Provisioning - Prioritise more important applications over less important ones thanks to PacketShaper's application-intelligent QoS technologies. Also, provision sessions for critical applications.

Compression Module
Quickly increase WAN capacity, improving application performance and user response times with Packeteer's application intelligent Compression Module. Reduce bandwidth usage and minimize WAN latency using the optimal compression algorithm for each application.

· Low-Latency, Advanced Compression Technologies -Multiple compression technologies including high efficiency, low-latency algorithms, packet packing, MTU management and header compression increase WAN capacity.

· Application-Intelligent Selective Compression - Intelligently select what traffic to compress and which technology to optimize—to increase capacity from two to 100 times.

· Active Tunnel - Automatically set up tunnels between devices and maintain reliability of compression exchanges.

Acceleration Module
Acceleration overcomes WAN latency issues and enhances performance over the WAN by accelerating Web applications, time-sensitive transaction response times and file transfers.

Policy Center
Ensure that application performance and bandwidth utilization stay aligned with changing business demands across the whole network. Exert comprehensive network control with centralized configuration, policy management, software distribution and Adaptive Response tracking for multi-unit PacketShaper deployments.

Report Center
Simplify enterprise-wide application performance management with an intuitive, centralized view of what's running on your network. Keep business on track with collection, correlation, storage and reporting of performance metrics for multi-unit PacketShaper deployments.

Benefits

· Eliminate the network as the source of performance issues.
· Quickly fix performance of critical applications by ensuring that bandwidth resources are allocated appropriately.
· Stop the cycle of bandwidth upgrades -- reclaim bandwidth by controlling recreational and malicious traffic and preventing inefficient networks.
· Control network congestion, traffic latency, and application response times (overcomes queuing deficiencies in routers and other devices).

Capabilities

· Partitions and policies provide bandwidth maximums or minimums per application, per user, or per flow to provide protected resources, containment partitions, or fairness between users.
· TCP Rate Control, UDP Rate Control, and Advanced Queuing provide control over all types of network traffic.
· Shaping actively throttles traffic at end stations and predictively schedules when traffic is sent. This prevents congestion, eliminating dropped packets (retransmissions and timeouts) and queues (latency) common in queuing-only devices like routers and other network devices.
· Adaptive Response agents monitor and react to system, unit, network, and application characteristics. When thresholds are exceeded, Adaptive Response can take actions ranging from gathering detailed information through PacketCapture or Top Talkers, to automatically fixing the problem by creating a partition or applying a policy.
· Packet marking for DiffServ, MPLS, VLAN, IPTOS, and more leverages application-intelligent classification for your router (or your provider's routers).
· Bi-directional control capabilities provide for one unit control over remote sites (when traffic moves in a hub-and-spoke method).