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Getting Started Guides
Manuals for PacketShaper and PacketSeeker products covering installation, initial setup, and instructions for using basic features

Release Notes
PacketSeeker, PacketShaper, and PolicyCenter Release Notes

PacketGuide Reference Sections
Sections of PacketGuide that might be useful in printed format

LAN Expansion Module (LEM) Documentation Technical Product Overviews
Technical but conversational white papers describing the capabilities and benefits of Packeteer products
  • PacketSeeker, PacketShaper, and PacketShaper Xpress:
    Strategies for Managing Application Traffic — Using Visibility, Control, and Compression to Deliver Performance [PDF]
    Describes how Packeteer’s Application Traffic Management system detects, addresses, and prevents application performance problems.

  • PacketShaper ISP: Provisioning With Power [PDF]
Technical Papers that Delve into More Product Details
Technical but conversational white papers focusing on one area of product capabilities — visibility, control, and compression
  • Gaining Visibility into Application and Network Behavior [PDF]
    A technical paper that picks up where the "Strategies for Managing Application Traffic" paper leaves off, delving into more detail on Packeteer's visibility features — classification, utilization analysis, response-time measurement and management, notification/events, reports, metrics, third-party reporting integration, and the customer portal.

  • Controlling WAN Bandwidth and Application Traffic [PDF]
    A technical paper that picks up where the "Strategies for Managing Application Traffic" paper leaves off, delving into more detail on Packeteer's control features — protecting, containing, and pacing applications' access to bandwidth, choosing appropriate controls, packet marking, MPLS integration, TCP Rate Control, UDP Rate Control, adaptive response, and plenty of examples.

  • Accelerating Network Applications [PDF]
    A technical paper that picks up where the "Strategies for Managing Application Traffic" paper leaves off, delving into more detail on Packeteer's acceleration features. It describes typical results, how acceleration works, and how Packeteer's control and acceleration features co-operate to optimize both capacity and performance.

Other Resources

  • Packeteer Deployment Topologies [PDF]
    A collection of common topologies for PacketSeeker, PacketShaper, and PacketShaper Xpress with installation, configuration, and scalability advice for each.

PacketGuide™ for PacketWise® 7.2