Packeteer

Packeteer offer what no other solution on the market offers this comprehensive set of integrated capabilities, which is why Packeteer is the global leader in WAN application optimization. With Packeteer, over 60,000 WAN links, 600 applications and protocols, and 7,000 companies run a lot faster. And that's good for business. An intelligent overlay between business frontlines and IP networks, Packeteer® appliance-based solutions scale to deliver optimal WAN application performance at every location. Applications move at the speed of business.

World Leader in WAN Application Optimization

Packeteer (NASDAQ: PKTR) is the global leader in WAN Application Delivery and WAN Optimization. The founding company in this space, Packeteer continues to lead this burgeoning market both in market share and with an unmatched solution set that ensures high performance for every application at every location across the WAN. Packeteer delivers the ultimate in application performance and end-user experience through a comprehensive, integrated family of scalable appliances and software products. Packeteer products provide fast delivery of all key business applications to all the locations. But it takes much more than mere speed to successfully meet today's networking challenges. Packeteer provides solutions that empower customers with intelligent acceleration — using unique intelligence about the application and the network to target the optimum technologies for the ultimate performance gain and extend the value across current and emerging enterprise initiatives.

Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Cupertino, California, Packeteer stands out with:

• Over 60,000 units shipped worldwide

• 400+ employees

• 7,000 customers

• Clear industry leadership

• Extensive distributor and sales channel

• Unrivalled 24/7 global service and support

• 10+ years experience in WAN optimization

 

The Market - Shifting WAN Demands

Today's distributed enterprises pose unprecedented demands on wide area networks (WANs)-often connecting thousands of offices and people across hundreds, even thousands of miles-all in an attempt to keep data moving at the speed of business. The strategic importance of application performance, along with emerging technologies like Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) and voice over IP (VoIP), has moved front and centre as performance spikes, application outages and user frustration threaten business productivity. Changes in application delivery architectures like server consolidation and web services highlight performance risk and new complexities in effectively delivering applications across a distributed enterprise.

 

Application Delivery: Top Priority

With thousands of diverse applications sharing limited network resources, business-critical applications don't get the priority they deserve. Microsoft®, SAP®, Oracle®, Citrix® and PeopleSoft® deployments lose out to the swelling numbers of recreational and malicious applications-viruses, gaming, etc.-at a high cost to business. Limitations in networking protocols and application design cause performance issues that cannot be overcome with more capacity.

 

Enterprise Frontline and Network Disconnect

Resource-strapped, capacity-hungry and application-ignorant, network infrastructure is just not up to the challenge of distributed application delivery. Packet-based, best-effort approach simply doesn't deliver applications effectively to remote sites and users. To mitigate this disconnect, organizations are often forced into launching expensive band-aid initiatives — such as adding more bandwidth or deploying brute-force acceleration and then often coming away with disappointing results.

 

The Packeteer Approach

 

Scalable Solutions with Proven Technologies

That's where Packeteer steps in. Packeteer bridges the gap between critical business applications and IP networks with an intelligent overlay of key technologies for WAN application delivery. Building on an organization's existing infrastructure, Packeteer's scalable platform ensures optimal delivery and performance of these networked applications by consolidating best-of-breed, field-proven technologies that provide:

• Application Discovery is a key first step in troubleshooting performance problems and identifying issues in application delivery by identifying the applications running on the network. Our unique Layer 7 Plus technology provides the insight to break down complex applications, catch evasive traffic, and delivers the intelligence that drives our other technologies.

• Monitoring provides real-time performance per application giving insight into utilization, end-user performance and environmental issues that drive intelligent choices for resolving performance problems. This is critical to improving efficiency and simplifying the management of network applications, capacity planning and troubleshooting.

• Intelligent QoS (Shaping) is critical to protect the availability of key applications. Unlike commodity, aggregate Quality of Service (QoS) approaches, Packeteer has the application intelligence to direct resources to the right applications and transactions, with the granularity to solve the toughest performance demands for transactions, voice and video over IP.

• Intelligent Acceleration of critical business applications to improve performance and expand network capacity through advanced compression, caching, protocol and application-specific acceleration technologies.

• WAFS Performance that delivers on the promise of server consolidation-compliance, integrity and control for the enterprise and lightning-fast file access for branch office users.

• Management of both small and large unit deployments for low total cost of ownership (TCO) administration, with time-saving automation and powerful central management software.

 

Packeteer's "intelligent overlay" of WAN application optimization technologies bridges the gap between IP networks.