IT Wise, a Sub-Saharan distributor for Packeteer, today announced that the Info Security Products Guide, a Silicon Valley communications publication and the world`s leading publication on security-related products and technologies, has named Packeteer`s PacketShaper deployment at Arch Coal as a winner of the 2006 Best Deployment Scenario Award in the WAN Optimisation Category.
Arch Coal, Inc is the USA`s second largest coal producer, contributing about 12% of America`s coal supply from its 12 mining complexes in Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, West Virginia, Kentucky and Virginia. By standardising on Packeteer`s PacketShaper systems to monitor and control WAN bandwidth allocation at the company`s headquarters and remote sites, Arch Coal postponed a major WAN upgrade by increasing existing network capacity, dramatically improving application performance over its existing WAN links, and prioritising critical WAN traffic to ensure improved and ongoing operational business efficiency.
"This recognition continues to validate that PacketShaper`s robust WAN optimisation, acceleration, bandwidth control and related cost savings are the very best the industry has to offer," commented David Puglia, vice-president of marketing for Packeteer. "Arch Coal is a key player in one of the world`s toughest and most demanding industries and this award makes us doubly proud that the company has selected our PacketShaper product to increase their network efficiency and contribute to their success."
Packeteer`s PacketShaper solution is a scalable platform for optimised WAN application performance and is the industry`s only all-in-one solution for extending monitoring, shaping, acceleration and compression as well as centralised reporting and management across the distributed enterprise. PacketShaper offers an application-intelligent picture of all network traffic; ensures QoS for all applications at every location and increases WAN capacity for customer critical applications. The PacketShaper product line ranges from appliances that fit link speeds as low as 128Kbps all the way to high-end appliances for link speeds up to 1Gbps.
For further information, please contact Mike Ransom at telephone (012) 665 2204; fax (012) 665 2918; e-mail miker@itwise.co.za.
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Packeteer
Packeteer Inc, founded in 1996 and headquartered in Cupertino, California, is the pioneer and global leader in WAN application traffic management. Packeteer`s PacketShaper product line consolidates network visibility, bandwidth management and quality of service capabilities, application acceleration and centralised management functions into a single, easy to deploy device. Packeteer solutions are sold through a global network of partners, distributors, and system integrators, and are backed a 24x7 global service and support organisation.
IT Wise
IT Wise, a South African company, is a Sub-Saharan Africa distributor for US-based Packeteer.
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