Packeteer PacketShaper Release 8

Powerful new features and functionality take PacketShaper to another performance level. Integration of PacketShaper with the Acceleration Module keeps networks working—not waiting. And strategic voice and video quality monitoring along with real-time compression optimize converged networks.

PacketShaper...Acceler8ed!

Release 8.0 seamlessly integrates a new acceleration architecture that operates in concert with Packeteer's market-leading classification and visibility, quality-of-service and compression technologies. This architecture includes a new technology called Xpress TCP that significantly improves the performance of business-critical applications including large file transfers, database synchronizations, data center mirroring and distributed storage backups.

Remove High Latency Impact

The new Acceleration Module provides a high-performance, transparent application gateway that allows PacketShaper to move client server responses to the local network, removing the impact that latency has on chatty protocols and opens up connection speeds to accelerate traffic.

The new application acceleration architecture also features Xpress HTTP technology that greatly improves the performance of customer-critical enterprise applications such as SAP, PeopleSoft Enterprise, Oracle and Intranet applications that utilize HTTP and XML to connect geographically dispersed employees worldwide. Xpress HTTP speeds Web and XML applications with fast connection setup, intelligent parsing, fetching and pre-caching of objects and content.

Acceleration reduces the time required to download and display each Web page by proactively retrieving the embedded graphics and other objects on each page along with the requested HTML file.

Managing Migration to Converged Voice/Video/Data Networks

As enterprises increase volumes of multimedia traffic on converged networks, there is a growing need for quality monitoring and bandwidth management to handle this network convergence. Release 8.0 features new voice and video quality monitoring functions that examine Real Time Protocol (RTP) traffic for jitter, delay and packet loss, extending Packeteer's suite of application service level agreement statistics to include IP telephony and IP video-conferencing applications.

Real-time Traffic Compression

The new real-time traffic compression feature expands bandwidth capacity for increasing voice and video traffic loads. The new compression technique intelligently groups voice and video data packets into "superpackets" and allows the network to accommodate more calls or video sessions without the need to increase bandwidth. To free up additional bandwidth, customers can selectively employ the PacketShaper Compression Module or restrict recreational applications to a smaller portion of the link.

Availability

The Acceleration Module with Xpress TCP and Xpress HTTP/XML can be purchased for PacketShapers on Release 8.0. Other Release 8.0 features are available as free upgrades to customers with a PacketCare support contract.