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Education Customers
Offering students a top-notch education means giving them and teachers ready access to the training and tools they need. This includes utilizing the school network for e-learning applications, research, e-mail, digital classrooms as well as financial and administrative applications to run the institution and general Internet access. With all this traffic running on their networks, applications and access can be significantly slowed. Learn how these institutions have solved their bandwidth challenges with Packeteer.
With Packeteer PacketShapers, Caufield Grammar School is able to limit recreational P2P traffic on their network in favor of academic applications like online classroom presentations and also is able to justify upgrades in bandwidth based on network performance reporting.
See how Packeteer PacketShapers saved this 36-site school district $1 million in one year on bandwidth upgrades and anchored a Citrix deployment by prioritizing this application on the network.
Episcopal High School uses Packeteer PacketShapers to allocate the majority of their bandwidth to academic applications while also providing access to Napster, Imesh and other popular Internet applications, without having to upgrade their existing bandwidth to control network traffic.
Using Packeteer PacketShapers, ISU is able to prioritize applications like distance learning and key services that are required to run university operations and limit recreational traffic that was causing slow downs on the network with the added benefit of identifying anomalous traffic patterns to pinpoint the source of security threats such as viruses that can be quickly quarantined.
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Learn how New College of Florida is using Packeteer PacketShapers to restore quality of service for all their VoIP traffic while also being able to control P2P traffic.
Ohio Education Computer Network has been able to avoid bandwidth upgrades by controlling the traffic on their network using Packeteer PacketShapers and has seen a reduction of almost 60% in P2P traffic.
Supporting three school districts in Texas, Region 11 is an educational service center that has deployed Packeteer PacketShapers to ensure CIPA compliance by controlling P2P traffic on their network, restrict rogue traffic and avoid bandwidth upgrades.
Within 24 hours of installation, Rosebud Secondary College's IT support staff were using PacketShaper technology to detect and control unwanted Internet traffic, including time and bandwidth wasting applications such as Kazaa and WinMX file-sharing applications, and multiple Internet chat programs.
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The University of Colima saves thousands of dollars each year with their Packeteer PacketShaper solution that controls P2P and other unsanctioned traffic as well as ensuring performance of e-learning applications and avoiding bandwidth upgrades.
As the UK's largest single-site university, and with 11,500 student residence rooms connected to its network, the University of Manchester depends on PacketShaper to remove nearly 100% of harmful peer-to-peer (P2P) traffic from its network while solving its critical WAN bandwidth consumption issues.
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Learn how the University of Puerto Rico achieved a 50% reduction on their WAN bandwidth usage by implementing Packeteer PacketShapers to control P2P applications on their network.
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