1. blue coat packetshaper
Visibility and OptimizatiOn fOr netwOrked applicatiOns
Blue Coat PacketShaper is part of the Application Delivery Network (ADN), an infrastructure that provides complete
application visibility, acceleration and security. PacketShaper supports ADN with unmatched visibility to optimize WAN
performance. With PacketShaper, you can automatically classify and measure network applications, provide quality-of-
service (QoS) provisioning to control traffic and increase WAN capacity with compression capabilities.
Critical applications need to move loss for voice and video conferencing can guarantee per flow bandwidth
at the speed of business. Blue Coat traffic over Real Time Protocol – for and automatically enforce appropriate
PacketShaper provides WAN Optimization real traffic in real time. transfer rates for computers at the far
functionality through a series of modules All of these capabilities can integrate end of the network to deliver true bi-
– monitoring, shaping and compression. into your performance management directional QoS.
FEATURES environment, including intelligent -> Fix critical application performance
thresholds and alerts when problems issues by allocating bandwidth to ensure
Monitoring Module are about to occur. applications perform.
Before you can optimize application -> Identify and classify applications Compression Module
performance, you need an accurate with Layer 7 Plus technology.
The Blue Coat PacketShaper
picture of network traffic. Blue Coat Monitor performance in real time
Compression Module instantly increases
PacketShaper automatically classifies and the information you need to solve
WAN capacity, improving application
and measures network applications, performance issues.
performance and user response
providing the insight of a probe but
with deeper, application-intelligent
Shaping Module times. Using a symmetric, application
The Blue Coat PacketShaper Shaping intelligent architecture and multiple data
Layer 7 Plus visibility. In addition to
Module provides QoS provisioning. This reduction methods, the Compression
delivering network and application
helps control traffic and assures that Module intelligently selects what traffic
utilization and performance data, the
latency-sensitive, customer-critical to compress and which technology to
Monitoring Module validates common
applications get the bandwidth they need use – increasing capacity from two to ten
protocols and tracks what happens to
to perform at their peak, while preventing times, reducing bandwidth usage and
each connection established by each
recreational traffic from consuming minimizing WAN latency.
application. Monitoring also breaks
down traffic per application and per too much bandwidth. With patented -> Create more bandwidth from existing physical
site at a granular level, recording peak TCP rate control, the Shaping Module links and enhance the user experience.
and average utilization rates, bytes
transmitted, availability, utilization, top Blue Coat PacketShaper Dashboard
talkers/listeners, network efficiency
and much more.
Once traffic has been identified,
PacketShaper monitors performance –
over 100 stats per application class – in
real time. Track how much bandwidth
applications are using, the response
times of key applications broken down
by network and server delay and key
stats like TCP Healthy, efficiency and
retransmissions to aid troubleshooting.
Targeted packet traces can be captured
for use with protocol analysis tools.
Voice level intelligence tracks Mean
Opinion Scores (MOS), jitter, delay and
