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Packet Shaping

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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
Meeting the Challenges Affecting Data Replication Performance and Reliability
sponsored by F5 Networks
PRODUCT LITERATURE: Data replication has become a common process within most enterprise IT departments. The need to protect critical data and ensure continuity of operations drives many to deploy sophisticated replication solutions. This paper gives more details.
Posted: 28 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007
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TOPICS:  Bandwidth Management | Business Intelligence | Data Replication | Packet Shaping | Packet Switching | WAN
RTSP: One of the Foundations of Convergence
sponsored by F5 Networks
WHITE PAPER: Real-Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) is a foundation for the current convergence of communications. When implementing RTSP, the multiple port and protocol nature of RTSP makes streaming audio/video difficult to manage. This white paper explains it.
Posted: 28 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Sep 2007
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TOPICS:  Business Intelligence | Data Compression | Packet Shaping | Packet Switching | Quality Control | Real Time Control Protocol | RTP | Streaming Media Services | Streaming Video Software | Telecommunications Networks
Optimize WAN and LAN Application Performance with TCP Express
sponsored by F5 Networks
WHITE PAPER: F5's BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager provides a state-of-the-art TCP/IP stack that delivers dramatic WAN and LAN application performance improvements for real-world networks.
Posted: 28 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Aug 2007
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TOPICS:  Application Performance Management | Bandwidth Management | LAN | Packet Shaping | Packet Switching | RFC | TCP/IP | WAN
Avaya and Packeteer: Monitoring and Managing Avaya IP Telephony Traffic
sponsored by Packeteer
PRODUCT LITERATURE: 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.
Posted: 22 Feb 2005 | Published: 01 Jan 2004
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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:Packeteer’s Application Traffic Management System gives IT managers a powerful, flexible tool that monitors, controls, and accelerates WAN traffic based on business priorities.
Posted: 30 Nov 2004 | Published: 31 Oct 2004
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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:Packeteer automatically discovers hundreds of applications, with a flexible architecture to define thousands of application traffic types.
Posted: 30 Nov 2004 | Published: 01 Nov 2004
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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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