Packeteer(R) Introduces New High-Speed Platform for Multi-Gigabit Network Traffic Monitoring and Control

Packeteer® (NASDAQ:PKTR), the global leader in WAN application performance solutions, today announced the introduction of its new Talon TC30,™ a multi-gigabit application performance monitoring and control solution delivering speeds of up to 6Gbps for the Internet and WAN. A modular appliance that turbo-charges Packeteer’s flagship PacketShaper® 10000, the Talon TC30 is Packeteer’s latest WAN application performance innovation and is a part of Packeteer’s vision to provide Intelligent Service Assurance solutions that more intelligently optimize WAN performance for any user, anywhere in the enterprise. The Talon TC30 is the first product to utilize Packeteer’s new high-speed product architecture developed in conjunction with Cavium Networks. (Note to editors: See Packeteer-Cavium press release, "Packeteer Collaborates with Cavium to Develop Industry Leading Network Traffic Processing Solutions,” Jan. 14, 2008.) By offering a "turbo-boost” to Packeteer’s PacketShaper appliances, the Talon TC30 allows real-time visibility and control over traffic running across OC-12 to OC-48 Internet and core networks. By helping customers understand exactly which applications are running on their most critical network links and how these applications are performing, Talon TC30 increases a network administrator’s ability to manage and prioritize the demands of numerous competing applications and users. The Talon TC30 scales to intelligently enforce bandwidth usage policies for the largest LAN and WAN links, ensuring key applications and services maintain peak performance levels while preventing non-essential traffic from congesting a customer’s most expensive network links. "Enterprises, higher education, government networks, software service providers and ISPs are all adding more high-capacity OC-12 to OC-48 links to alleviate congestion and performance concerns, expanding their bandwidth as well as their cost of doing business,” said Lucinda Borovick, director of datacenter networks at IDC. "The proliferation of converged networks and the explosion of new Web 2.0 and Rich Internet Application content are also creating an even more challenging environment to manage and control. Identifying applications and controlling their performance at these higher link rates is critical for any firm that depends on network performance. By managing networks at an application level, you can ensure optimal levels of service performance and contain the impact of recreational or non-critical traffic.” In a report titled "Optimizing the WAN for Application Acceleration,” Aberdeen Group noted that 93 percent of organizations have increased their bandwidth capacity over the last two years. At the same time, 52 percent of these organizations report a decrease in application response times — and 18 percent of those note a decrease of 50 percent or more. The findings in this report lead to the conclusion that while organizations continue to add more bandwidth they are struggling for ways to better manage it. By delivering 6Gbps of aggregate throughput, a single Talon TC30 delivers high-performance Layer 7 Plus application discovery, performance reporting, bandwidth partitioning, and policy enforcement for up to three concurrent Ethernet segments connecting to a customer’s WAN links. This enables the Talon TC30 to intelligently partition users and prioritize all data, voice and video applications. The Talon TC30 serves as a strategic infrastructure component for allocating bandwidth, providing a high-capacity aggregation point for intelligently managing connectivity to an organization’s remote sites. As a result, bandwidth allocation can be established and enforced across the entire organization in accordance with business priorities. For example, the Talon TC30 can be easily configured to manage the allocation of bandwidth reserved for specific external business partner applications such as hosted ERP, CRM or web-enabled applications while proactively suppressing bandwidth for traffic designated as recreational, malicious or illegitimate. To ensure business critical applications receive and maintain high priority status, the Talon TC30 provides proactive event notifications to ensure consistent service level performance as well as dynamic anomaly detection to contain the propagation of viruses and malicious traffic. "The Talon TC30 in conjunction with our PacketShaper 10000 platform has helped us to monitor our critical applications and even discovers malicious traffic and denial of service attacks that could have shut down access to our multi-gigabit networks,” said Jason Katz, CEO of Paltalk, the premier real-time, text, voice and video-based online community. "Paltalk generates nearly 4Gbps of aggregate internet traffic during peak usage times and this means we need a solution that we can depend on to clearly identify and control unwanted traffic while ensuring consistent access to our community in this high-speed environment. Packeteer technology has been a key component in our IT environment for some time now and we look forward to boosting our ability to monitor and protect our entire infrastructure with Talon.” Talon and IntelligenceCenter for Intelligent Service Assurance Because the Talon TC30 works in conjunction with Packeteer’s IntelligenceCenter centralized management platform it can be used to manage service level agreements for all transactional, converged and bulk applications and ensure the highest fidelity for bandwidth intensive voice and video traffic. With Talon and IntelligenceCenter, customers will gain new insight into how their high-capacity links are being used to validate recurring and consumption-based business expenses as well as justify network infrastructure spending. This advanced network monitoring will also provide real time views into business applications to assure acceptable service levels are being established and maintained. "Packeteer’s Talon product not only delivers the highest speed application visibility and performance management solution to our customers, it also provides investment protection for those customers who have deployed our PacketShaper appliances,” said Dave Côté, president and CEO of Packeteer. "By offering Talon as a solution that seamlessly integrates with PacketShaper, we are demonstrating our commitment to our customers’ network needs as well as their bottom line.” Pricing and Availability The list price for Packeteer’s Talon TC30 is $24,000 and orders are being taken now. About Packeteer Packeteer is the global leader in WAN Application Delivery. Packeteer’s solutions provide an intelligent, unified and adaptive approach to monitor, shape, and optimize applications, delivering the best user experience for any application to any location. For more information, contact Packeteer at +1 408 873-4400 or visit the company’s Website at http://www.packeteer.com. 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