Traffic Control Based on the Acutal Application Beats
Management via Port, IP, or Protocol.
Blue Coat’s PacketShaper delivers integrated visibility, control and compression capabilities in a single appliance. With PacketShaper, IT can identify all the applications on the network and monitor response times and utilization at the Layer 7 application level.

Blue Coat’s identification and classification technologies automatically discover and classify network traffic - even traffic from recreational and malicious applications that have been designed specifically to avoid detection. PacketShaper provides deep insight into application sub-classifications, validation methods and behavioral characteristics. It uses unique multi-packet flow analysis and profiling intelligence for encrypted, tunneled and evasive applications.

The classification feature then maps the discovered applications to a classification library, providing a listing of the applications running on the network. This forms the basis of monitoring performance metrics, service level agreements and prioritization.

Network managers can look deeper into application traffic network utilization and response times, performance diagnostics, connection profiling and forensics as well as SLA tracking with proactive altering and managing.

In addition, IT can optimize application performance by using granular quality of service (QoS) controls to regulate traffic and increase WAN capacity through application-specific compression techniques.

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