Blue Coat PacketShaper
PacketShaper is the ultimate scalable platform for optimized WAN application performance. From MPLS through protocol acceleration, Blue Coat’s intelligent overlay of key WAN optimization technologies keep critical applications moving at the speed of business. Building on an organization’s existing infrastructure, Blue Coat’s scalable platform ensures optimal delivery and performance of these networked applications by consolidating best-of-breed, field-proven technologies that provide:

• Monitoring real time performance at the Layer 7 identification level – a mandatory first step in dramatically improving efficiency and simplifying the management of network applications, capacity planning and troubleshooting
• Shaping networked applications to deliver comprehensive Quality of Service (QoS) – as opposed to so-called “essential QoS” – to ensure availability of an enterprise’s most critical business processes
• Acceleration of critical business applications to improve performance and expand network capacity through advanced compression, protocol and application-specific acceleration technologies
• Management of both small and large unit deployments for low TCO administration, with time-saving automation and powerful central management software