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.
Probe-Like Capabilities
The insight of a probe, but with deeper Layer 7 Plus visibility, application QoS, acceleration and security features.
Layer 7 Plus Auto-Discovery
Automatically classify hundreds of networked applications, validating common protocols and differentiating between mission critical, recreational and malicious traffic types—even over common ports.
Flexible Hierarchical Framework
Break down traffic to a granular level with visibility into peak and average utilization rates, bytes, availability, utilization, top talkers/listeners, network efficiency and much more.
Transparent Measurements
PacketShaper provides network delay, server delay and congestion metrics by measuring response times across applications without agents.
Application Diagnostics, Forensics and Troubleshooting
In addition to network and application utilization and performance, PacketShaper tracks what happens to each connection established by each application.
Shaping Module
Allocate Bandwidth
Fix critical application performance issues by appropriately allocating bandwidth.
Secure the WAN from DDoS
Stop the cycle of bandwidth upgrades and streamline the network by controlling recreational and malicious traffic.
Minimize Network Congestion
Minimize network congestion, queuing latency and inefficiencies that hurt application response times between remote locations.
Recreational Application Capping/Blocking
Simply move the recreational applications into a fold and partition the bandwidth as you see fit. It's that easy to curb malicious traffic!
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 Prioritization and Session Provisioning
Prioritize more important applications over less important ones thanks to PacketShaper's application-intelligent QoS technologies. Also, provision sessions for critical applications.
Compression Module
Increase WAN Capacity
Increase WAN capacity over the same physical links with application-specific compression.
Improve Application Performance
Improve application performance and responsiveness—applying the best-suited compression algorithm for each application.
Prioritize Critical Applications
Prioritize business-critical applications by giving them increased network capacity.
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
Boost Application Performance
Minimize latency and boost Web-based application performance by 5 to 10x over high-latency links.
Accelerate TCP
Accelerate TCP over high-bandwidth and high-latency links such as satellite and reclaim lost bandwidth.
Optimize the Link
Optimize WAN application performance and link utilization to keep your network working, not waiting.
Speed Up Large Flows
Accelerate all flows and file transfers-both large and small-including data center replication, database mirroring, disaster recovery storage, and backup.
Accelerate Transactions
Speed the delivery of chatty applications slowed by WAN latency, giving LAN-oriented applications the freedom they need to run efficiently.
Fully Transparent, Protocol-Layer Architecture
Unique architecture is specifically optimized for long delay, high bit error and asymmetric bandwidth conditions.
XML and HTTP Acceleration
Accelerate all XML and HTTP applications with intelligent connection setup and pre-caching of content.
Data Center Replication Acceleration
Ensure full use of bandwidth and improved replication performance over high capacity data center-to-data center links.
Maximum Performance Gains when used with Compression Module
Take advantage of application-specific compression to create more available bandwidth that can be filled by acceleration.
Complete Integration with all PacketShaper Modules
PolicyCenter Software
Control Thousands with One
Control thousands of PacketShaper appliances from one console.
Manage securely through a Single, Intuitive Interface
Manage your entire network through a single, intuitive interface, protected by authentication; defined by roles.
Quickly Deploy and Configure
Auto-deploy and configure multiple remote PacketShaper appliances in minutes.
Automatically Update
Distribute software updates and plug-ins to all your PacketShapers.
Apply Network-Wide Policies
Apply unique policies based on location, function or other defined criteria.
Lower TCO
Reduce administrative overhead and lower total cost of ownership (TCO).
Centralized Control Mechanisms
Select from a wide variety of centralized mechanisms available to control performance—including dynamic partitions and sub partitions, rate control and never-admit, ignore and discard policies.
Flexible Configuration Overrides
Flexible configuration overrides make it easy to design location-specific settings.
Shared Hierarchical Configurations
Hierarchical configurations are sharable by multiple PacketShaper appliances.
Schedulable Distribution
Schedule the distribution of PacketShaper software upgrades and plug-ins.
More Configurations Faster with Trial Mode
Test new PacketShaper configurations with trial and rollback modes first to ensure success first time.
Centralized Adaptive Response View
Maintain a centralized view of Adaptive Response status for thousands of PacketShaper appliance.
Comprehensive Network Management
PolicyCenter—together with ReportCenter—provides a comprehensive, centralized network management solution.
Secure, role-based Management
Hierarchical logins based on secure LDAP technology assign rights to users or groups with audit trails to monitor activities.
ReportCenter Software
Centrally Collect and Manage
Centrally collect, correlate, navigate, store and report on critical performance information across your entire network.
Simply Navigate to Important Information
Effectively navigate the incredible wealth of information provided by your PacketShaper overlay by scanning high-level exceptions and sorting best and worst performers.
Group Information
Examine specific cross-sections of traffic on your network by grouping information by geography, business unit, application or any other logical basis.
Perform Custom Queries and Filters
Analyze very specific information at an extremely detailed level by performing custom queries and filtering out irrelevant data.
Custom Format
Leverage the built-in custom reporting wizard and script XML templates to create just the right report for any situation.
Centralized Reporting
Centralized application performance, service-level tracking and organization-wide reporting with drill-down and customization capabilities.
Scaleable Data Store
Two-tier collection and management architecture provides flexible scaling, while powerful data reduction and information management logic speeds reporting.
Per Flow Record Keeping
Even more detailed troubleshooting information with per flow records, compatible with Cisco® Netflow format or extended with Packeteer application and performance information.
Extensive Reporting
Extensive predefined and custom reports can be automatically distributed.
Comprehensive Management and Control Solution
When combined with PolicyCenter Software, ReportCenter completes a comprehensive central management and control solution.
New! Release 8.0
Powerful new features and functionality take PacketShaper to another performance level. Integration of PacketShaper with the Acceleration Module keeps networks working—not waiting. And strategic voice and video quality monitoring along with real-time compression optimize converged networks
PacketShaper...Acceler8ed!
Release 8.0 seamlessly integrates a new acceleration architecture that operates in concert with Packeteer's market-leading classification and visibility, quality-of-service and compression technologies. This architecture includes a new technology called Xpress TCP that significantly improves the performance of business-critical applications including large file transfers, database synchronizations, data center mirroring and distributed storage backups.
The new Acceleration Module provides a high-performance, transparent application gateway that allows PacketShaper to move client server responses to the local network, removing the impact that latency has on chatty protocols and opens up connection speeds to accelerate traffic.
The new application acceleration architecture also features Xpress HTTP technology that greatly improves the performance of customer-critical enterprise applications such as SAP, PeopleSoft Enterprise, Oracle and Intranet applications that utilize HTTP and XML to connect geographically dispersed employees worldwide. Xpress HTTP speeds Web and XML applications with fast connection setup, intelligent parsing, fetching and pre-caching of objects and content.
Transaction-Based Application: High Latency
Acceleration reduces the time required to download and display each Web page by proactively retrieving the embedded graphics and other objects on each page along with the requested HTML file.
Managing Migration to Converged Voice/Video/Data Networks
As enterprises increase volumes of multimedia traffic on converged networks, there is a growing need for quality monitoring and bandwidth management to handle this network convergence. Release 8.0 features new voice and video quality monitoring functions that examine Real Time Protocol (RTP) traffic for jitter, delay and packet loss, extending Packeteer's suite of application service level agreement statistics to include IP telephony and IP video-conferencing applications.
Real-time Traffic Compression
The new real-time traffic compression feature expands bandwidth capacity for increasing voice and video traffic loads. The new compression technique intelligently groups voice and video data packets into "superpackets" and allows the network to accommodate more calls or video sessions without the need to increase bandwidth. To free up additional bandwidth, customers can selectively employ the PacketShaper Compression Module or restrict recreational applications to a smaller portion of the link.
Availability
The Acceleration Module with Xpress TCP and Xpress HTTP/XML can be purchased for PacketShapers on Release 8.0. Other Release 8.0 features are available as free upgrades to customers with a PacketCare support contract.
