Videoconferencing improves productivity by facilitating greater real-time collaboration between employees, partners and customers no matter where they work. Videoconferencing can also help businesses save thousands of dollars per year in travel costs and minimize lost productivity due to lengthy transit times and delays. However, successful videoconferencing depends on maintaining reliable quality for every session. Performance problems such as out-of-synch voice and video can quickly derail an otherwise productive meeting.

To support videoconferencing sessions, many enterprises either rely on expensive, dedicated connections or move to a more affordable converged network. However, while convergence can reduce costs, videoconferencing can be forced to compete for bandwidth with other network applications. To deliver a reliable videoconferencing experience, you have to manage and prioritize bandwidth across your entire enterprise.

Deliver outstanding video performance with Blue Coat

The Blue Coat Application Performance Monitoring solution optimizes videoconferencing sessions by alleviating chronic network congestion, jitter and packet loss that diminish video quality at the LAN/WAN boundary. Using the Blue Coat Application Performance Monitoring solution built around the Blue Coat PacketShaper portfolio, you can monitor performance and set bandwidth levels to ensure videoconferences progress flawlessly over existing networks — providing an experience that rivals in-person interaction.

With Blue Coat’s Application Performance Monitoring solution, you can:

• Measure the quality of videoconferencing applications
• Enforce QoS for videoconferencing sessions
• Isolate and resolve network issues before they impact performance
• Maintain intelligent control over your entire network