iShaper

Unified Appliance for the Next Generation Branch Office

Welcome to the next generation branch office with iShaper — Packeteer's new unified branch office appliance that marries the best of real-time WAN optimization, monitoring and shaping with wide area file services (WAFS) and key Microsoft services. With iShaper you can:

• Confidently centralize branch infrastructure, servers and storage without compromising data integrity, security and performance.
• Say hello to fast file access, high-quality IP telephony and LAN-like delivery of business-critical applications.
• Get familiar with operational simplicity, cost savings from a unified branch office appliance.

Meeting the Demands of the Next Generation Branch Office

The modern branch office demands high performance of all of its business-critical applications — voice, video and data — in an increasingly consolidated IT environment. No small feat. Consolidation means more dependency on the WAN for application delivery and file access, resulting in corresponding performance and complexity issues. The real challenge lies in meeting application performance demands while still protecting data integrity in a centralized system — something that, until now, seemed virtually impossible.

iShaper Architecture and Deployment

Industry-leading Technologies Working As One

iShaper combines the best of real-time WAN optimization, monitoring and shaping with wide area file services (WAFS) and key Microsoft services in a single, easy-to-manage unified branch office appliance. iShaper streamlines operational complexity, enables LAN-like delivery of critical business applications and greatly improves centralized access to data for branch workers. No other solution offers such a wide set of industry-leading technologies working in concert to solve the performance, manageability and data integrity problems facing the branch office today. Only iShaper can:

• Streamline branch office infrastructure and slash operational costs by replacing servers and consolidating multiple tools in a single, easy-to-manage appliance.
• Deliver the benefits of consolidation, convergence and beyond by enabling true data and server consolidation while also providing new levels of performance and quality for all applications, including voice and video.
• Extend the data center to the branch by providing genuine Microsoft® services — from printing to authentication — natively from one appliance.