Differences among the various Packetshaper models
Packeteer • PacketShaper • PacketShaper 7500 • PacketShaper 10000 • PacketShaper 3500 • Packetshaper 1400 • PacketShaper 1700
What are the differences among the various Packetshaper modules? Read this to find out.
Packeteer offers 4 modules for the Packetshaper line. You can upgrade to each module by installing a simple key at the command line.
- Monitoring – The monitoring module comes standard on all shapers. It gives you visibility and reporting for all traffic and applications on the network. You will find traffic on your network that you never knew was there.
- Shaping – Gives you the ability to set policies based on application, user, group, source, destination, etc. You can limit pest applications and protect business applications. For example, you can guarantee each Citrix session a certain bandwidth, say 30K. Then, Citrix will always work, even when competing against bursty HTTP traffic.
- Compression – Solves the problems created by congestion by reducing the amount of redundant information sent across your WAN.
- Acceleration – Intended to make TCP protocols work better over high-latency links.
The different Packetshaper models are the 1400, 1700, 3500, 7500 and 10000. Each one can run all of the above modules. The only difference is the amount of classes, bandwidth, flows, partitions, policies and active tunnels.
