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

Streamline Branch Office IT

Employ Microsoft-certified Packeteer solutions to streamline branch office IT management while minimizing costs and delivering great application performance.

The Challenge: Consolidating Data, Servers and Infrastructure in a Microsoft Environment.

Most medium to large companies are considering or undertaking a server consolidation effort to regain control of distributed data and to lower the cost of managing branch office sites. Consolidating servers can be a very efficient, secure way to deliver applications and services to the branch, but implementing the right solution is key to avoiding a number of potential pitfalls with WAN-based file access.

Application Response Time Degradation - Slow File Access

Navigating, opening or saving a file across the WAN can be extremely painful because of the number of round trips that CIFS requires across the WAN. Combined with WAN latency, this creates very slow file access performance. Users who are used to LAN-like response times become frustrated and productivity suffers.

Massive Increase in Required WAN Bandwidth

Slow access to files is compounded by limited WAN bandwidth, which is often 10 -100 times lower than available LAN bandwidth. Centralizing file access and other branch office services creates significant new demand for bandwidth as large files and other services - such as print services - are delivered from the data center. This impacts costs and affects other applications already using the WAN.

Data Reliability Problems

The WAN is inherently less reliable than a LAN. "Time-outs" can occur when saving data, data can simply be lost while traversing the WAN, and network outages can occur, resulting in wasted time while users sort out version problems or wait for the network to recover.

The Packeteer Solution: Microsoft-Certified WAFS from Packeteer

Packeteer and Microsoft offer a comprehensive solution for branch office consolidation and application acceleration based on Packeteer's Windows-based WAFS and WAN Optimization technology. The Packeteer solution, available as a Windows-based appliance or as a software-only version running on a Windows Server, optimizes and accelerates file services and bulk applications between data centers and remote branch offices. The customer proven result is near LAN-like performance in the Microsoft environment.

Consolidate Your Infrastructure

Achieve the promise of consolidation by combining application acceleration, fast file access and delivery of key Microsoft services to the branch, all in a single solution.

Fast File Access

Packeteer's WAFS solutions accelerate delivery of files across the WAN, often 100x faster than native file services. Integrating with native Microsoft CIFS at the branch and data center, Packeteer provides a high performance WAN protocol that streams data to deliver files quickly, whether it's the first transfer or the tenth.

Massive WAN Bandwidth Savings

By employing numerous technologies to reduce the data transfers, Packeteer can reduce bandwidth needs by up to 95-99%. Byte caching, compression, and file differencing are all employed to minimize traffic and remove redundant data transfers.

True Wide Area File Services

A complete virtual file system manages versions, read/write/locks and provides file access - and file saves - when the WAN is down. This avoids problems with multiple users accessing files and ensures productivity even when communications are down.

Local Branch Services for the Serverless Branch

In order to achieve the benefits of server consolidation, Enterprises need to remove all servers from the branch - print, SMS, DNS/DHCP, domain controllers, etc. But that comes at a price - every transaction that occurs over the WAN takes time and bandwidth. Does it make sense to send a print job to the data center, only to send it back to the printer at the branch? Packeteer delivers print, DNS/DHCP, SMS and domain controller services to the branch, without the need of a server...and integrated into the Microsoft management framework.

Flexible Platform for Delivering WAFS

Packeteer delivers WAFS and WAN optimization on appliances or as software loads on customers' servers, as well as software clients for SOHO or mobile users. This flexibility allows you to:

• Drop in a purpose-built appliance to simplify management
• Install a WAFS software load to leverage your server vendors or to convert existing servers into a WAFS platform
• Deliver file access to every location - from data center to branch to mobile users.

Support for Windows End-to-End Security Features

There are many approaches to accelerating file access. Many approaches, however, are disabled by SMB signing, a Microsoft security protocol that protects against man in the middle attacks. That is - if SMB signing is turned on, acceleration is turned off. Packeteer integrates natively with SMB signing and is able to accelerate delivery in high security environments.

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