Packeteer Unveils Classification for Thousands of Web Services on Every Appliance

Business Wire, Feb 22, 2005

CUPERTINO, Calif. -- New Web Services Workbench Enables Quick and Easy Classification for Web Services in Addition to Automatic Classification for Over 450 Common Applications

Packeteer(R), Inc. (NASDAQ:PKTR), the pioneer and global leader in WAN Application Traffic Management, today introduced the Web Services Workbench and new additional Layer 7 application classifications as major new software enhancements for its family of wide area network (WAN) appliances. Packeteer appliances can now automatically identify and classify over 450 network applications and enable enterprises to identify and classify any number of unique Web services through the Web Services Workbench.

Accurate and reliable application classification is the cornerstone to any WAN application performance management system and Packeteer appliances continue to lead the market with new classifications and the Web Services Workbench. Packeteer now automatically classifies over 450 applications and traffic types for optimal WAN performance. The newest classifications include Vonage and Skype, with voice over IP sub-classifications for SIP-based RTP traffic by calling number, number called, user-agent, source IP address of the call setup flow and destination address. A complete list of Packeteer application classifications can be found at www.packeteer.com.

"Managing Web services traffic has become an important issue for our customers," said David Puglia, vice president of marketing at Packeteer. "To make networks run efficiently, enterprises need to be able to effectively address Web-enabled applications. The Web Services Workbench allows them to do this by enabling enterprises to customize and create priorities for their unique blend of SOAP and HTTP traffic -- ensuring their business applications receive the highest priority."

Web services technology is emerging on the corporate WAN and IT groups are challenged with ensuring business application performance when network traffic is hard to distinguish. Web services employed by ERP applications can share the same protocol and port number as casual Web browsing. To the untrained eye or unsophisticated device, all of this traffic looks the same. Enterprises must be able to uniquely identify and control Web services performance in order to manage and maintain application performance.

Packeteer's new Web Services Workbench can quickly and easily classify Web services traffic. The Workbench identifies the HTTP traffic and sub-classifies the SOAP traffic within the HTTP traffic. A Web service profile is developed and a new class is created so that each Web service can be uniquely controlled to ensure optimal application performance. New inbound and outbound SOAP-HTTP service classes appear in the traffic tree based on the Web service's SOAP address. Simply identifying Web traffic by the HTTP protocol or port number is not sufficient and no other offering available today provides this capability. The new Web Services Workbench and auto-classifications keep Packeteer customers proactively in control by enabling them to address the new WAN applications introduced everyday.

The Web Services Workbench and new classifications are available immediately at no charge to customers under current service contracts. The files are provided as a support update at www.packeteer.com.

About Packeteer, Inc.

Packeteer, Inc., (NASDAQ:PKTR) is the global market leader in Application Traffic Management for wide area networks. Deployed at more than 7,000 companies in 50 countries, Packeteer solutions empower IT organizations with patented network visibility, control, and acceleration capabilities delivered through a family of intelligent, scalable appliances. For more information, contact Packeteer at 408-873-4400 or visit the company's Web site at www.packeteer.com.

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