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Packeteer Introduces PacketShaper 9500

Packeteer Inc, a leading provider of Application Traffic Management systems, announced availability of the PacketShaper 9500, a highly-scalable traffic management system offering application-layer visibility and control of more than 500 applications at speeds up to 500Mb per second full-duplex or 1Gb per second asymmetric. The new platform also features data compression at speeds up to 45Mb per second and automatically establishes and manages as many as 300 compression tunnels to other compression-enabled Packeteer devices.

Packeteer delivers an Application Traffic Management system via intelligent appliances at the LAN/WAN interface. This helps enterprises maximize IT investments by aligning network applications and resources with business needs, and providing significant cost savings in the process.

The Packeteer system protects and accelerates key business applications and controls malicious, recreational and other non-business traffic.

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"Application performance is affected by bandwidth, latency and emerging application architectures. In many cases, throwing bandwidth at the problem is not the optimum solution," said Mark Fabbi, vice-president of research at Gartner. "By taking advantage of WAN optimization techniques, enterprises can deliver a WAN solution that reduces costs, improves application performance and reduces deployment complexity in at least 95 percent of situations."

The PacketShaper 9500 is designed to operate at 500Mb per second with 175,000 new flows per minute. This allows large enterprises, educational institutions and other organizations with large volumes of traffic to ensure efficient, reliable performance of mission-critical applications over large WAN and Internet links.

It may also be configured for service providers that have many users and multiple links, operating at 400Mb per second full-duplex with 600,000 new flows per minute.

The PacketShaper 9500 features optional copper and fiber gigabit LAN interfaces and dual hot swappable power supplies. It is also XML and CGI compliant and integrates seamlessly with third-party management products including Aprisma Spectrum, BMC Patrol, Concord eHealth, HP Openview, IBM Tivoli, InfoVista and Micromuse Netcool.

"The 9500 meets a need that would have been difficult to anticipate a few years ago," said Jeff Barker, director of product management for Packeteer. "The growth of processing power, applications, users and other factors dictates that our customer use very large links to connect their networks to the outside world. The PacketShaper 9500 ensures that mission-critical applications running over those connections, even at gigabit speed, are getting the bandwidth they need."