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Intelligent Acceleration
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Accelerate your most critical business applications. Don't let SAP, VoIP and financial transactions take a back seat to YouTube, worms or music downloads.
The Challenge: High Performance for Your Business Applications
Resources Go to the Wrong Applications
High priority business transactions represent only a small percentage of the hundreds of applications-each with varying requirements for response time, availability and bandwidth-traveling across enterprise WANs. What happens when the wrong applications get the benefit of acceleration?
- Voice and video over IP experience quality issues when faced with jitter and congestion.
- Server and storage consolidation efforts are derailed when centralization places a heavy burden on storage, backup, replication and network services delivery.
- Malicious and recreational traffic hogs available bandwidth and creates network congestion.
- Real-time transactions are crowded out by "bulky" applications and non-business congestion.
- Collaboration is undermined when slow file sharing brings business to a standstill.
- Disaster recovery is at risk if there isn't enough bandwidth to complete storage, data mirroring, database synchronization and backup.
The Problem with Quick Acceleration Fixes
Quick fixes, such as point acceleration products, often fall short and may even exacerbate the problem. Accelerators, alone, speed up everything-without control or discernment-throwing extra resources at aggressive traffic such as video, music downloads or even worms.
The Intelligent Lifecycle
The Solution: Packeteer Intelligent Acceleration
The Smart Approach to WAN Application Performance
Acceleration with intelligence, on the other hand, keenly targets all your network resources to the right applications so current and emerging enterprise initiatives are supported. Packeteer's Intelligent Acceleration four-step approach implements application acceleration over the WAN and Internet for complete command of application performance and delivery:
- Assess: Identify applications and determine the best tools for success. Determine exactly what's happening on the network-what applications are running and at what performance levels-to lay out a game plan, decide which tools to apply and establish continuous performance monitoring.
- Provision: Create policies to protect availability of key applications. Contain non-essential traffic and shut down malicious attacks. Established policies and usage compliance ensures resources are aligned with business priorities.
- Accelerate: Apply technologies to enhance performance and capacity. Use the proper acceleration and compression technologies to enhance performance, overcome latency and increase capacity where speed really counts-file access, big disaster recovery jobs and even satellite.
- Extend: Adapt current infrastructure to new and emerging issues. Leverage distributed intelligence across the enterprise, from a centrally managed location, to ensure application availability and network security from the data center to the branch, and beyond.
Then, back to Assess for continuous monitoring against established performance baselines.
Assess with Application Discovery and Performance Monitoring
Packeteer advanced visibility provides deep insight into WAN traffic, making it easy to proactively track, troubleshoot, measure and manage network resources as well as select the right tools to fix any problem.
- Unique Layer 7 Plus application classification of network traffic
- Real-time monitoring of key network and application statistics
- Performance reporting and automated alarming
- Application and link service level management
Provision with Policies and Application Availability
Rocket QoS beyond queuing and port-based marking. Fine tune application performance and ensure the availability and performance of critical applications while containing recreational and malicious traffic.
- Application intelligent QoS for all application types
- TCP Rate Control to proactively control remote traffic from a single point
- Granular QoS provisioning per call/session sub application
Accelerate with Acceleration Technologies, Data Compression and Caching
Take performance to the next level. Quickly increase WAN capacity with application-intelligent, file-aware compression and caching. Use protocol acceleration technologies to speed application delivery and eliminate latency.
- Real-time dictionary-based data compression
- Bulk disk-based byte caching
- Acceleration specific for CIFS, HTTP/XML, e-mail or TCP applications
Extend with WAFS, Storage, Network, Security and Application Services
Control data growth and storage costs without compromise. Utilize file-aware WAFS technology to enable real-time file collaboration and deliver centralized storage and data to branch locations.
- Wide Area File Services (WAFS)
- Remote office IT services: SMS, Domain Controller, Print, DNS/DHCP
- File and data integrity management
- Offline access and security compatibility
Extend with Centralized Management
Bring it all together with Packeteer centralized management software, ReportCenter and PolicyCenter, which integrates with your existing infrastructure.
- Intelligent system to identify and track application delivery issues
- Scalable, secure, centralized analysis reporting, policy and device management
- Rich APIs and alerts
- Leading network management system vendor integration
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