Visibility: Automatic Classification and Monitoring

Visibility is the first 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:

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 PacketSeeker provides Layer 7 visibility into network utilization and application performance. Integrating transparently, Packeteer Packetseeker determines how WAN and Internet resources are utilized, identifies causes of performance problems, and provides a path to fix those problems.

Benefits

• Increase visibility and simplify troubleshooting by isolating performance issues quickly.
• Identify the true nature of traffic and differentiate between mission-critical, recreational, and malicious traffic types, even over common ports.
• Monitor utilization and performance by link, application, or users.
• Track application response times and quickly identify if issues are server- or network-related
• Establish and monitor service-level agreements for critical applications or links.
• Identify misbehaving users and malicious traffic.
• Provide detailed performance diagnostics that include connection profiling and server responses (TCP Health), PacketCapture, traffic forensic history and more.

Capabilities

• Identify applications with Layer 7 intelligence, network information, and behavior tracking to accurately identify and track network traffic.
• Differentiate between applications that masquerade common ports (port 21, port 80, etc), masquerade (P2P) hop ports (stateful applications), or tunnel.
• AutoDiscovery automatically discovers, classifies and measures traffic.
• Flexible classification methodology and sub-classification techniques on HTTP, Oracle, Citrix, and other applications enable granular traffic categorization for thousands of application types.
• Link-level intelligence includes MPLS, VLAN, DiffServ, IP address, port & TOS, frame relay and ATM VC information.
• Measure network and application utilization, including peaks, averages, top talkers and top listeners, network efficiency, bytes, compression rates, bytes transferred and saved.
• Measure response times across applications, providing network delay, server delay, and congestion metrics.
• Service-level tracking and management: Performance thresholds, events, and synthetic transactions to provide active response-time and availability statistics.