* Packeteer’s PacketShaper 1200 Series
Packeteer this week plans to unveil a series of appliances for managing application traffic at remote and branch offices.
The PacketShaper 1200 Series would work with the company’s flagship PacketShaper appliance to optimize traffic delivery at branch and remote offices. The 1200 Series appliance would sit in a remote office location and communicate with a PacketShaper appliance at the main data center.
Packeteer – like competitors Expand Networks, FineGround Networks and Peribit Networks – offers software packaged on an appliance to monitor and optimize WAN traffic. PacketShaper targets bottlenecks in WAN application performance, as application traffic enters the enterprise in the last mile between a campus and the WAN cloud.
The hardware sits between LANs and WAN routers, reserves bandwidth for key applications and queues traffic by application so that top-priority applications get bandwidth over less-critical traffic. Packeteer’s compression technology uses pattern recognition to compress data, which can optimize the performance of important applications across WAN links where bandwidth is limited.
Packeteer says that the 1200 Series would be best used in enterprises with 10 or more branch locations and that it eliminates poor application performance at the edge.
Packeteer says the 1200 Series can deliver monitoring, control, and compression at link speeds between 128K bit/sec and 2M bit/sec. It can automatically identify and respond to suspicious hosts on a network. The appliance can also provide per-flow data on hosts and applications to troubleshoot network issues in real time and help IT managers better roll out new applications, Packeteer says. The 1200 Series is able to centrally report on and manage up to 1,000 appliances.
The 1200 Series is available immediately from resellers, and pricing starts at $2,150.
