Packeteer Inc., a leading provider of Internet application infrastructure systems, today introduced the PacketShaper 6500 series, a 100Mbps wire-speed addition to the company`s award-winning PacketShaper product line.
The PacketShaper 6500 is designed to meet the needs of large enterprises and service providers by allowing high capacity, wire-speed application traffic and bandwidth management for IP networks
The 6500 series has landed in South Africa and is distributed by Thin Client Technologies t/a IT Wise. Says technical director, Pieter Olivier: "PacketShaper is a policy-based application traffic and bandwidth management solution that brings predictable, efficient performance to applications running over enterprise WANs and the Internet. It discovers and classifies application traffic on the network, analyses its performance, enforces bandwidth allocation and quality of service, and generates reports on service levels. The PacketShaper`s rich and scalable bandwidth provisioning and management capabilities are used by Internet, hosting and network service providers to deliver value-added IP services."
"The PacketShaper 6500 series directly addresses the needs of enterprises and service providers who require wire-speed application traffic control and IP bandwidth provisioning for large numbers of simultaneous connections at the WAN and data centre edges," said Jeff Barker, director of product marketing for Packeteer Inc. "With the addition of the 6500 series, Packeteer delivers effective bandwidth management and application quality of service at the right price and performance level for each point in the network, from remote sites to the data centre."
According to Neil MacDonald, vice president and research director of Gartner, "We see the need for bandwidth management in two primary areas; for protecting and prioritising traffic on slower connections at the edge of a wide area network and for protecting and prioritising traffic for data centres where large numbers of users are concentrated. While products have addressed the former in the past, the latter, until now, has largely been ignored. We see that these types of high volume data centres, whether they be within a large enterprise, applications service provider hosting facility or a network service provider, will benefit from this type of technology as the need to deliver against contractually-defined service levels increases."
PacketShapers are currently in use by a number of Global 2000 enterprise customers and service providers. More than 75 universities in the US also use PacketShapers to facilitate availability of their mission-critical applications despite the increasing use of Napster and other peer-to-peer file-swapping programmes.
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