1. Solutions

1. Streamline Branch Office IT

1. Intelligent Acceleration

1. Network Visibility

1. Application QoS

1. Voice & Video

1. Application Server
   Consolidation

1. Manage WAN Costs

1. Migrating to MPLS

1. Satellite/Long Haul

1. Server/Storage Consolidation

1. Real-time File Collaboration

1. Government

Government

Optimize Field Office Performance to Boosts Productivity and Lower Costs. Eliminate the Drawbacks and Enable Successful Server Consolidation

Government organizations rely on applications to help run operations. An agency can't take care of business — whether it's tracking travelers as part of the U.S. VISIT program or answering citizen's concerns about medical benefits — if its applications simply don't run efficiently. As well as a way to optimize application and data access performance for the field office, organizations continue to look for ways to lower costs and heighten security by server and storage consolidation.

The Challenge:

Staying ahead of optimizing application performance and data flow over wide area networks (WANs) and or secured Internet gets increasingly difficult as the complexity and volume of traffic increases in highly distributed environments.

As security and cost drive efforts to consolidate data and servers, government WANs are feeling the strain of an unprecedented volume of data passing among collaborators in field offices scattered across a large geographical area. Critical data can get crowded out by downloads from YouTube and iTunes or other recreational traffic. Important tasks and vital services risk taking second place as the applications that deliver them don’t run efficiently and critical data is not prioritized properly. The cost in lost productivity and dollars spent unnecessarily on communications is greater than most resource-strapped agencies can afford to pay.

Latency and Protocols Chip Away at Performance

Protocol limitations often thwart the most well-thought-out distributed networking strategies, particularly when it comes to moving bulk applications — files or bulk data. The results are even more extreme when satellite is added to the mix. Even modest latencies or very large links with big jobs can cause problems with file protocols (CIFS and NFS).

Recreational and Malicious Traffic on the Rise

Critical data can get lost among downloads from YouTube and iTunes or other recreational traffic. For example, when a current event like a celebrity meltdown or political gaffe drives users to the Internet in droves to download audio, video and images, it can clog an agency's network and trap important data in gridlock, slowing its delivery and reducing performance to a sputter. Or, the transfer of a new detailed mapping image interferes with a real-time telemetry update.

Consolidation Puts Distance and Delay Between Staff and Their Data

Organizations are consolidating infrastructure for all the best reasons, but the extra traffic strains WAN bandwidth, interrupts field office operations and slows things down. Attempting to centralize IT services such as domain authentication, patch upgrades, DNS, DHCP and print, means agencies put more pressure on the WAN and build a dependency on business operations. If the WAN shuts down, so do operations at the remote site. When these performance-busters creep in, agencies not only pay the price in morale among workers who can’t get their hands on timely, actionable information, they're also on the hook annually for millions of dollars in unnecessary communications costs. And with the tight budget strictures in Washington, who can afford that kind of extravagance?

The Solution: Packeteer Makes the Difference

A recognized pioneer in WAN application delivery and WAN optimization within the enterprise market, Packeteer has brought the considerable expertise gained there, as well as a proven solution set, to the federal marketplace. We have developed a holistic approach to optimization, which has attracted federal agencies, including DHS, DISA, the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Navy and many others.

Agencies have a broad set of choices and form factors from Packeteer. From the network-focused, feature-rich PacketShaper that delivers visibility, performance monitoring, application QoS, compression, and protocol acceleration, to the Storage and IT services focused iShared to the Mobiliti software for providing fast access and data protection for mobile users.

Packeteer iShaper integrates real-time WAN optimization, monitoring and shaping with wide area file services (WAFS), and key Microsoft® services into the industry's first field office service delivery system. iShaper combines what many separate appliances previously delivered into a single appliance. iShaper provides deep visibility, application QoS, intelligent acceleration and full-fidelity Microsoft services, (Domain controller, print, security, SMS, DNS/DHCP,etc.) into a single appliance. Packeteer is delivering the field office box years ahead of industry consultants' predictions. Packeteer's strategic partnership with Microsoft has been a critical success factor in accomplishing this. Any organization with strong ties to Microsoft IT services such as file shares, Active Directory®, SMS and print could realize significant optimization and performance benefits from Packeteer's solutions as well as future proof their WAN optimization solution.

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