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Packeteer, Inc., founded in 1996 by Robert Packer and Brett Galloway, was an I.T. company based in Cupertino, California that was listed on the NASDAQ. Networking appliances focus on Application Traffic Management and optimization for wide area networks. They held at least 40 patents for various network optimization methods. Packeteer was acquired by Blue Coat Systems in 2008. Packeteer was a contributing member of the Apdex Alliance. Their main product lines were: * PacketShaper (Traffic shaping, compression, TCP & HTTP acceleration, analysis, reporting) * SkyX (TCP acceleration and compression, high latency link optimization) via the Mentat acquisition. * iShared (WAFS and TCP acceleration, optimization, compression and caching) via the Tacit Networks acquisition. * iShaper (Introduced: May 7, 2007. Combines PacketShaper and iShared technologies into a single appliance. * Mobiliti software (data protection and link optimization for mobile business users. via the Tacit Networks acquisition. * PolicyCenter (centrally manages the configuration, policy management, software distribution and adaptive response tracking of multi-unit deployments.) (en) |
