Packeteer
PacketShaper®
The PacketShaper family comes in a variety of appliance models designed to fit your individual customer’s needs. Each appliance is loaded with four critical functionality modules designed to maximize WAN efficiencies.
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Why Sell PacketShaper?
Because every business ranging from small to medium to large size enterprises require their networks to run at optimum efficiency and speed. PacketShaper’s WAN optimization technology offers significant returns on investment by saving your customers time and money.
PacketShaper Functionality Elements:
- Monitoring Module is the foundation of every PacketShaper appliance that supplies your customers with a comprehensive, lucid picture of all traffic on the network. The monitoring module intuitively and immediately identifies and differentiates customer critical business traffic from recreational traffic using Packeteer’s renowned Layer 7 plus visibility technology.
- Shaping Module is this product’s bandwidth guarantee that provides quality of service (QoS) provisioning to control and shape network traffic to ensure customer critical applications receive the bandwidth they need. The shaping module technology prioritizes business critical applications using its application intelligent QoS so customer critical business is optimized while simultaneously ensuring recreational applications are not slowing and congesting the network.
- Compression Module provides instant WAN capacity and enhanced performance by compressing or packing data that results in overall improved performance and user response times. This technology intelligently selects what traffic to compress and which technology to use increasing capacity from two to ten times-reducing bandwidth usage and minimizing WAN latency.
- Acceleration Module works in synergy with all the above appliance modules as an added layer to speed web applications, time-sensitive transaction response times and file transfers so LAN-oriented application finally have the freedom they need to run efficiently over the Wan.
How do my customers manage their PacketShaper appliances? With Packeteer’s high performance PolicyCenter Software. Key features and benefits include:
- Signal console
- Configures PacketShaper appliances deployed at remote sites from basic IP information to full policy configuration in minutes
- Simplifies large deployments and rollouts across the globe
- Manages entire network through single, intuitive interface
- Distributes software updates and plug-ins to all PacketShapers
- Ability to customize unique policies or apply global policies per location
- Reduces administrative overhead and lowers total cost of ownership
What if my customers need reporting capabilities? Packeteer’s ReportCenter Software delivers by providing:
- Central collection & correlation
- Excellent navigation capabilities by scanning high-level exceptions and sorting best and worst performers
- Storage
- Reporting reflecting performance metrics for multi-unit PacketShaper deployments
- Extensive pre-defined reports
- Custom report capabilities
- Ability to easily scale large global PacketShaper deployments
- Detailed troubleshooting reporting
