Blue Coat PacketShaper S200/S400/S500

your business requires your network to have high performance and high efficiency. Applications in the mobile, cloud, and video fields have spawned the need for bandwidth that could compromise the performance of mission-critical applications. Blue Coat PacketShaper can help enterprises control bandwidth costs, provide excellent user experience and match network resources with business priorities. It is a cloud-connected WAN and Internet device that allows you to clearly understand the applications and web content on your network, and has strong application-level policy management. PacketShaper is the core component of Blue Coat Performance Center. It is integrated with Blue Coat's global intelligence network, can provide real-time traffic detection, and can classify hundreds of applications and tens of millions of web pages.

visibility
your network and applications needs to match the speed of your business. You need to accurately understand your network traffic status before optimizing application performance. PacketShaper automatically classify network traffic according to application programs and content categories, realizing comprehensive visibility. Integration with Microsoft Active Directory can provide group-based and user-based views to help you understand who occupies the most bandwidth on the network. With this unparalleled visibility of network traffic, you can draw in-depth analysis conclusions to help you adjust your policies and network traffic control.
In addition, PacketShaper can also provide Layer 7 Plus's intelligent application recognition technology. It integrates with the Blue Coat WebPulse component in a global intelligence network that can classify real-time content. In addition to reporting network and application utilization and performance, PacketShaper also validate common protocols and track the specifics of each connection established by any application.
As the proportion of Web-based traffic continues to grow, PacketShaper provides management of Web-connected applications such as SaaS, social media, entertainment video and audio/video communications. All Web content that users request to access is automatically classified under more than 80 logical headings, such as collaboration, games, and social networks. This level of Web content control and Web threat visibility can help you assess the impact of entertainment traffic, security threats (such as malware and network fraud), and undesirable content that may pose legal or compliance issues.
PacketShaper recognizes traffic, performance is monitored in real time (more than 100 sets of statistics per application category). It tracks the bandwidth consumed by applications and Web content categories, the response time of critical applications (based on network and server latency), and key statistics such as TCP health, efficiency, and retransmission to help troubleshoot. PacketShaper can also perform targeted packet tracking for use with protocol analysis tools.
real-time performance measures include average opinion score (MOS), jitter, delay, and loss of voice and video conference traffic transmitted through RTP. All the above functions can be integrated into your performance management environment, which can provide intelligent thresholds and alert before problems occur.

control
PacketShaper is not just about identifying and classifying; It also provides powerful QoS tools to protect key applications and Web content categories, while also suppressing the impact of bad traffic. To maintain a high level of network efficiency and performance for business-critical applications, traffic must be segmented and prioritized. Control should be implemented based on visibility so that network administrators can split traffic and prioritize it according to your business by its corresponding value. Network administrators may wish to restrict entertainment video or BYOD downloads so that they occupy a small and reasonable network bandwidth, so that they will neither affect important commercial applications nor cause dissatisfaction from sports enthusiasts (including vice presidents and senior directors) or employees who are keen on BYOD. For example, you can use PacketShaper for the following QoS control:
improves the user experience by ensuring bandwidth for latency-sensitive applications such as VoIP, video conferencing, and virtual desktops.
Protect business-critical applications by bandwidth allocation and prioritizing non-critical traffic.
allows access to social networking sites such as Facebook and Youtube, but limits the impact of their bandwidth on the network.
ensure the bandwidth of each data stream and automatically perform appropriate transmission rates for systems located at the remote end of the network, thus realizing bidirectional QoS.
Protect the most important part and limit the rest: match the network usage with your business priority according to the application and content.

Monitoring
with the visibility and control provided by PacketShaper, your network is running at its best efficiency. But it is always beneficial to regularly monitor your network activities and make appropriate adjustments when necessary. The PacketShaper includes real-time dashboard monitoring tools, which allow you to quickly grasp relevant information about which applications or users are occupying your network bandwidth and how utilized your network bandwidth is. You can use this dashboard to learn which applications or users are taking up the most bandwidth and how much your available bandwidth is taking up at a particular moment. The dashboard is updated every few seconds, allowing you to know the status of traffic on your network in real time.






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