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Article: Packeteer, Microsoft Team Up on Branch-Office Box; The all-in-one iShaper appliance offers WAN optimization and quality-of-service prioritization in a unified platform, Packeteer says.
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- eWeek
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- May 7, 2007
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Packeteer on May 7 added to the growing branch-office application-acceleration trend with a new all-in-one branch-office box, iShaper, designed to serve branches with at least 50 users.
"iShaper consolidates four to five classes of branch-office infrastructure. It can discover over 600 applications, do performance monitoring of each application, accelerate applications and limit malicious or recreational applications," said Alan Menezes, vice president of marketing at Packeteer, in Cupertino, Calif.
Through a partnership with Microsoft, Packeteer also integrated into the iShaper appliance such Microsoft services as an Active Directory domain controller, Systems Management Server software ...