Packet Shaper is the bandwidth-management solution that brings predictable, efficient performance to applications running over enterprise wide-area networks (WANs) and the Internet. With PacketShaper, you can control performance to suit applications’ characteristics, business’ requirements, and users’ needs. It offers a four-step process to manage applications performance: it detects and classifies network applications, analyzes network behavior, enforces policy-based bandwidth allocation, and reports on application performance.

An assortment of PacketShaper models brings application-based bandwidth management to a variety of environments. The PacketShaper 1500 Series is the platform designed for small branch offices and remote sites. The PacketShaper 2500 Series handles large branch offices or mid-sized corporate data centers. The PacketShaper 4500 Series is a high-performance platform for larger sites such as corporate data centers. The PacketShaper 6500 Series is the highest capacity platform intended for the largest data centers. The PacketShaper 8500 Series, a gigabit Ethernet-based system that provides application-intelligent bandwidth management at OC-3 speeds (155 Mb/s) and higher, is specifically designed to be deployed in service provider hosting centers and POPs. The latest box in the series also adds multiprotocol label switching support. can handle up to 5000 customers per unit, spots and classifies application traffic, analyzes its performance and then enforces bandwidth allocation and QOS. PacketShaper 9500, a highly-scalable traffic management system offering application-layer visibility and control of more than 500 applications at speeds up to 500Mbps full-duplex or 1Gbps asymmetric. The new platform also features data compression at speeds up to 45Mbps and automatically establishes and manages as many as 300 compression tunnels to other compression-enabled Packeteer devices.