Packeteer發佈iShaper系統

PACKETEER iSHAPER APPLIANCE REVOLUTIONIZES APPLICATION DELIVERY FOR NEXT-GENERATION BRANCH OFFICES MALAYSIA – 26th September 2007 – Packeteer (NASDAQ: PKTR), the global leader in WAN Application Delivery, today announced the introduction of its iShaper™ appliance that delivers an entirely new class of unified branch office capabilities, combining unprecedented application visibility, intelligent acceleration, secure application QoS and native compatibility with Microsoft application services in a single, easy to deploy device.

Combining Packeteer’s Wide Area Network (WAN) optimization and its application visibility and prioritization technologies with Microsoft technologies, including Windows Server, Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server and System Management (ISA) Server and System Management Server (SMS), iShaper is the industry’s first unified branch office appliance that combine high performance delivery for all application types plus network performance troubleshooting, security services and native Microsoft application services.

iShaper replaces acceleration-only and other point products with a unified device that optimizes data, voice and video traffic, and addresses customer demand to centralize data and storage and consolidate branch office server infrastructure. With iShaper, enterprises will realize significant cost savings by converging high-speed network access to centralized data – via wide area file services (WAFS), TCP and HTTP traffic, high performance ERP, CRM and financial transactions – with high fidelity voice and video.

“Packeteer‘s ‘virtual data center’ for the branch offices begins the next important phase in the data center consolidation effort, " said Peter Christy, principal analyst at Internet Research Group.

“Server consolidation has achieved remarkable improvements in distributed IT cost-effectiveness and data security but at the cost of branch office application and data access performance. Packeteer’s iShaper appliance is the first to integrate application visibility and QOS with wide-area acceleration functionality, including important Microsoft technical initiatives, into one manageable system, raising the bar in branch office application and server consolidation. "

iShaper Highlights Designed for enterprise customers with branch offices supporting 50 or more users, the iShaper appliance consolidates deep visibility, Intelligent Acceleration, Microsoft Virtual Services, Application QOS and Zero Day Protection. - Application Visibility – iShaper discovers 600+ applications and protocols, provides real-time performance visibility and monitoring, and leverages that intelligence to apply optimization tools for specific applications. - Intelligent acceleration – prioritizes and accelerates Common Internet File System (CIFS), FTP, TCP and HTTP-based applications without compromising the performance of high priority transactional, voice and video traffic.

In addition, applies real time compression for transactional traffic and disk-based byte caching for data intensive bulk applications to reduce network traffic. - Secure Application QOS – ensures high availability high and performance of key applications during peak congestion periods while maintaining business continuity through Zero Day virus and DDOS attack protection. - Extensible Branch Office Services – supports existing and emerging Microsoft application services for patch management, networking and print enabled through Packeteer’s advanced services engine that ensures 100 percent compatibility with Microsoft.

Data/Voice/Video Application Delivery Unlike point products that simply address file and email traffic, iShaper is the first unified branch office appliance that intelligently accelerates high priority data traffic without imposing performance penalties on other applications, and optimizes the quality of converging voice and video traffic.
- Data and File Acceleration – iShaper accelerates files and bulk applications, while protecting real-time performance of key transactional ERP applications.
- Voice Quality Assurance– iShaper monitors the quality of voice calls, ensures quality performance with per call provisioning and delivers specialized traffic reduction techniques to increase network capacity.
- Video Quality Control – iShaper identifies and separates recreational video from business conferencing, containing ‘playtime’ from impeding key business applications. It also monitors quality of video conferencing applications, and ensures high performance session setup and session quality through application QoS.

“Transitioning our branch offices to a virtual services model that can effectively deliver high performance, bulletproof data, voice and video traffic is a high priority IT initiative,” said Scott Erickson, CIO, Erickson Retirement Communities.

“Packeteer’s iShaper is the first single appliance solution to satisfy these needs. The iShaper delivers application visibility and optimization plus LAN-like access to files across the WAN to play a vital role in removing complexity, centralizing storage and slashing costs for our increasingly strategic branch office operations.”

“The introduction of the iShaper appliance finally bridges the widening branch office performance gap,” said Dave Côté, president and CEO of Packeteer. “Enterprises can now deliver business critical data as well as voice and video applications to their branch offices with LAN-like performance and high availability in a single appliance. By ushering in the era of the unified branch office appliance, we’re obviating the need for point products that only accelerate data and offer a fraction of what iShaper can deliver. iShaper is the first of its kind in the industry and the best branch office solution in its class.” Availability Packeteer iShaper is available now.