Control: Bandwidth Management and QOS

Control is the second step in building an "intelligent network" that optimizes WAN application performance across the enterprise - and an integral component of Packeteer's four-in-one solution that provides:

PacketShaper offers application-intelligent traffic monitoring, shaping, acceleration, and policy control over WAN & Internet resources.

The Packetshaper allows you to align application performance and network resources with your business priorities using Packeteer's Application Traffic Management System.

Control is just one component of Packeteer's application traffic management system. This system is delivered in a single appliance with multiple software options that provide:

1. Visibility into performance of over 450 applications and network utilization.
2. Control over application performance and network utilization.
3. Acceleration of performance and increased WAN capacity.
4. Centralized management of performance analysis, reporting, and policy administration for large Packeteer deployments.

Packeteer's traffic shaping technology allows you to fix WAN and Internet performance problems. Shaping controls bandwidth utilization and application performance by actively preventing network congestion. Packeteer allows you to ensure true QoS for mission-critical applications -- from voice and video to CRM and ERP.

Packeteer's Application Traffic Management System Solves Application and Network Performance Problems.

• Discover What's Really Running on your Network
• Fix Poor Performance
• Create Greater WAN Capacity
• Control Bandwidth Utilisation
• Reduce IT Costs

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.
• 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).