Voice & Video

Realize the promise of your VoIP deployment. Overcome quality issues, assess readiness, ensure bandwidth, increase capacity and ultimately deliver top WAN application performance.

The Challenge: Realizing VoIP Potential

Voice and Video over IP (VoIP) or IP Telephony (IPT) is fast winning enterprise acceptance. Yet considerable barriers stand in the way of its promise for new, flexible ways to work and significant savings from consolidating services and infrastructure.

Data networks are unpredictable and suffer periodic congestion, degrading performance. While data can recover, voice has very tight quality requirements—with round trip latency under 150 ms. With so many applications contending for WAN bandwidth, VoIP quality suffers.

LAN-WAN Congestion

LAN-WAN congestion becomes a barrier to high-quality VoIP unless each call gets the resources it needs. Even when identifying voice or video, bandwidth cannot be guaranteed in WRED queuing schemes.

Network Readiness

Assessing the readiness of your network is key to a successful VoIP deployment.

• Will the same WAN bandwidth today support your VoIP effort tomorrow?
• If not, can you borrow additional bandwidth from recreational applications?
• Or do you have to add capacity?
• What is the impact to your existing applications?
• How well does VoIP perform on your WAN?

Consumer-Based VoIP

Consumer VoIP use is gaining ground. Instant messengers from Yahoo®, Google®, AOL® and MSN®, for example, are VoIP ready (and increasingly video). Even if unsanctioned, these programs definitely impact the network. They must be contained to ensure that sanctioned VoIP or other critical business applications get allocated enough resources.

The Packeteer Solution: VoIP Quality Guaranteed

Assess Network Readiness

Advanced network and application monitoring help determine:

• What applications run on your network with leading Layer 7 Plus technologies
• Measure how much bandwidth applications are taking
• Determine if you need additional bandwidth
• Allocate bandwidth by capping recreational applications

Ensure Voice and Video Bandwidth

Packeteer's QoS capabilities are second to none—ensuring each voice call gets the bandwidth it needs, per session or per call. Cap recreational or non-critical traffic to ensure that your VoIP applications get priority bandwidth.

Increase WAN Capacity, Not Bandwidth

Advanced compression algorithms provide low-latency, high impact compression to increase WAN capacity and create room for VoIP implementations. No bandwidth upgrades required!

Keep an Eye on Consumer VoIP

Discover and track the impact of consumer VoIP—like Skype®, Yahoo and other IM-based Voice—with Packeteer's Layer 7 Plus technology. Ensure QoS, regulatory compliance or limit bandwidth, according to your needs.

Optimize WAN Applications

Discover applications, track network utilization, monitor application performance, ensure QoS, increase capacity through compression and accelerate applications—all in a single appliance—to deliver business applications over the WAN.