PacketShaper

Unmatched auto-detection of both applications and Web content categories makes Blue Coat PacketShaper a complete visibility and control solution for today’s Web-heavy traffic. PacketShaper lets you measure network application performance, categorize and manage Web traffic based on its content, guarantee quality-of-service (QoS) for preferred applications and content, and contain the impact of undesirable traffic.
•Application Performance Monitoring Module: Discover and monitor more than 700 applications with deep Layer 7 deep packet inspection for an accurate picture of application traffic, plus tens of millions of Web sites by content category. Standard on all PacketShaper models.
•Shaping Module: Guarantee bandwidth for latency-sensitive applications, assign priorities to applications and Web content categories, and contain the impact of lower-priority traffic using flexible policy-based control.
•Compression Module: Increase WAN capacity while improving application performance with the PacketShaper’s application intelligent Compression Module.
•Blue Coat PolicyCenter Software: Manage multi-unit PacketShaper deployments with comprehensive control, centralized configuration management, software distribution and Adaptive Response using PolicyCenter.
•Blue Coat IntelligenceCenter: Software Simplify enterprise-wide application performance management with centralized monitoring, network forensics, and historical performance reports.
•Hardware Extensions: Extend PacketShaper across the enterprise, meeting the demands of complex corporate topologies and unique deployment criteria with hardware extensions.