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Manufacturing Customers
In today's environment, manufacturing companies must always strive to keep costs down and production up. As a result, design and manufacturing are likely to be done in sites separated by thousands, or even tens of thousands of miles. The size, diversity and geographical distribution of many operations make effective collaboration and timely data sharing difficult. Plus competitive pressure to streamline communications with partners and suppliers is driving business initiatives. Manufacturers have made significant IT investments in ERP and CRM systems, and now find that business users cannot easily extract the information they need. Learn how Packeteer is helping these manufacturers stay on top of their businesses.
A worldwide biomedical manufacturer, Beckman Coulter is using Packeteer PacketShapers to prioritize bandwidth for their Peoplesoft and Lotus Notes applications and control recreational traffic and have been able to eliminate the need for probes and increasing network bandwidth.
With Packeteer iShared, German-based chemical manufacturer, Brenntag is able to solve their WAN latency issues, and also offer data protection with significant cost savings.
"Before we ran Application Performance Analysis [service is enabled by the traffic discovery, classification, analysis and reporting capabilities of Packeteer's PacketShaper system], we had an idea of about 90% of the applications on the network, but not how they were used or how they would work together. They're going to save us provisioning more bandwidth as we grow." - Jim Mourilyan, Global Infrastructure Architect fo rthe Cadbury Schweppes Group's IT department.
Columbia Forest Products, North America's largest manufacturer of hardwood plywood and veneer, is using Packeteer PacketShapers to satisfy stringent response time performance objectives for its business-critical applications with a 99 percent success rate.
Read how Enterasys is improving file transfer performance and increasing the productivity of its collaborative engineering resources while also simplifying timely data backups and replication at remote locations and eliminating WAN link upgrades by implementing Packeteer iShared appliances as part of their server and storage consolidation initiative.
See how deploying Packeteer PacketShapers provided INERGY with a
- 75% decrease in server delay across network
- 20% decrease in bad transactions
- 60% decrease in network latency and jitter
- 300% increase in effective bandwidth
- 50% increase response to web/HTTP service
- 45% decrease in non-business Internet traffic
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"Once we installed the iShared systems, the AutoCAD and Inventor application file transfer times between sites plunged from 15 minutes to less than 60 seconds." - Mickey Oxford, director of information technology
Learn how Packeteer PacketShapers helped Logitech merge their data network for access to ERP applications; another data network for internal communication, data base replication, file-transfer, and e-mail; a VoIP network for communications, and adding videoconferencing to this network between their 13 worldwide sites.
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In order to handle increased web traffic after running an ad campaign Mary Kay implemented Packeteer PacketShapers to handle the extra load without adding any bandwidth or making any other capacity changes and will be using PacketShaper's compression and acceleration technologies to help with latency issues as they add VoIP and more international sites.
With a rapid expansion through acquisitions, Orica looked to Packeteer's PacketShapers to consolidate SAP hosting from three data centers into a single, global facility in Melbourne, Australia, all while gaining application visibility and control across their networks and all without degrading service levels.
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See how Rawlings replaced their network probes with Packeteer PacketShapers and not only was able to determine the source of their aberrant network behavior, but is now able to guarantee classes of service to intelligently accelerate and prioritize specific business applications like supply chain and VoIP and isolate the source of network viruses.
Deploying Packeteer PacketShapers has helped South African Breweries as they centralized their network to ensure performance of their SAP application and also reduce WAN bandwidth costs and the ability to monitor and control bandwidth abuse.
Unilever is saving $500,000 USD a year in bandwidth upgrades, while improving bandwidth efficiency (compression gains of 30-50%) and SAP and VoIP performance across a MPLS-based WAN with Packeteer PacketShapers.
