Blue Coat PacketShaper Appliances, IntelligenceCenter and PolicyCenter
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Blue Coat PacketShaper delivers integrated visibility, control and compression capabilities in a single appliance. With PacketShaper, IT can identify all the applications on the network and monitor response times and utilization at the application level. In addition, PacketShaper optimizes performance with granular quality-of-service (QoS) traffic controls as well as application-specific compression techniques that increase WAN capacity.
A product set developed out of Blue Coat Systems' acquisition of Packeteer, ongoing development and integration means unmatched auto-detection of both applications and Web content categories makes Blue Coat PacketShaper a complete visibility and control solution for today’s Web-heavy traffic. PacketShaper lets you measure network application performance, categorize and manage Web traffic based on its content, guarantee quality-of-service (QoS) for preferred applications and content, and contain the impact of undesirable traffic.
Features and Benefits:
- Discover and monitor 600+ applications
- Replace probes with intelligent monitoring and optimisation
- Deliver outstanding voice and videoconferencing quality
- Identify and control recreational WAN traffic
- Assure performance of real-time applications
Blue Coat IntelligenceCenter delivers a unified approach to monitoring network and application performance within distributed branch networks.
By leveraging Blue Coat’s unparalleled deep visibility solutions, IntelligenceCenter provides comprehensive application performance monitoring to quickly and easily understand application and network performance. IntelligenceCenter ensures that application performance meets user expectations when deployed together with Blue Coat PacketShaper as a complete visibility and control solution.
Blue Coat PolicyCenter - Centralised Management for Blue Coat PacketShaper appliances. Effectively managing bandwidth and accelerating application performance does not have to get more complicated as your WAN grows and becomes more distributed. PolicyCenter from Blue Coat makes it easy to maintain optimum performance. Whether you have a few PacketShaper® appliances located at one site or thousands distributed around the world, PolicyCenter brings comprehensive control to your fingertips. Leverage the superior scalability and ease-of-use of PolicyCenter to ensure that application performance and bandwidth utilisation stay aligned with the changing demands of your business.
Features:
- Wide variety of centralised mechanisms to control performance, including dynamic partitions and subpartitions, rate control, and never-admit, ignore and discard policies
- Flexible configuration overrides for location-specific settings
- Hierarchical configurations sharable by multiple PacketShaper appliances
- Scheduled distribution of PacketShaper software upgrades and plug-ins
- Trial and rollback modes let you push new PacketShaper configurations that just work the first time
- Centralised view of Adaptive Response status for thousands of PacketShaper appliances
- Comprehensive, centralised network management solution when combined with IntelligenceCenter
- AAA features provide secure, logged access
