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Packet Shaping

-- 3 Vendor Reports | 6 Products

ALSO CALLED: PacketHound, Network Traffic Shaping, and Traffic Shaping
DEFINITION: PacketHound is a product that aims to help an enterprise regulate traffic that might otherwise slow services down for all users of a local area network. PacketHound is intended to address the concern of businesses and universities about the downloading of large files, especially music files in the MP3 format, using Napster, Gnutella, and similar  … 
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Recent Vendor Reports on Packet Shaping
Avaya and Packeteer: Monitoring and Managing Avaya IP Telephony Traffic
sponsored by Packeteer
PRODUCT LITERATURE:   Posted: 22 Feb 2005 | Published: 01 Jan 2004
SUMMARY: PacketShaper is ideal for distributed, multi-site enterprises that depend on the WAN and Internet to share information and provide remote users with access to business productivity applications.

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TOPICS:  IP Telephony | Network Analyzer Hardware | Network Appliances | Network Performance | Packet Shaping | QOS
Application Traffic Management System
sponsored by Packeteer
DATA SHEET:   Posted: 30 Nov 2004 | Published: 31 Oct 2004
SUMMARY:Packeteer’s Application Traffic Management System gives IT managers a powerful, flexible tool that monitors, controls, and accelerates WAN traffic based on business priorities.

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TOPICS:  Application Performance Management | Network Analyzer Hardware | Network Appliances | Network Performance | Packet Shaping | WAN Hardware
Examples of Applications That Packeteer Classifies & Controls
sponsored by Packeteer
DATA SHEET:   Posted: 30 Nov 2004 | Published: 01 Nov 2004
SUMMARY:Packeteer automatically discovers hundreds of applications, with a flexible architecture to define thousands of application traffic types.

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TOPICS:  Application Performance Management | Network Analyzer Hardware | Network Appliances | Network Performance | Packet Shaping
 
PACKET SHAPING DEFINITION (continued): …  approaches. PacketHound can also monitor and reduce the number of streaming media files that are downloaded by network users. Both businesses and universities are concerned not only about such traffic slowing down the network for other uses, but also about the possibility of being sued by music companies for loss of intellectual property. According to Palisade Systems, the developers of PacketHound, Napster and Gnutella traffic has had a significant effect in performance on a number of university networks.

Although Gnutella uses a known port number that a network firewall … 
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