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Installation Guides
Manuals for PacketShaper products covering installation, initial setup, and instructions for using basic features

Release Notes
PacketShaper and PolicyCenter Release Notes

  • PacketShaper Release Notes (version 8.0.0/8.0.1) [PDF]

  • PolicyCenter Release Notes (version 8.0.0/8.0.1) [PDF]

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
Technical Papers that Delve into More Product Details
Technical but conversational white papers focusing on one area of product capabilities — visibility, control, compression, and acceleration
  • Gaining Visibility into Application and Network Behavior [PDF]
    A technical paper that picks up where the "Strategies for Optimizing Applications on the WAN" paper leaves off, delving into more detail on PacketShaper's Monitoring Module — classification, utilization analysis, response-time measurement and management, adaptive response, reports, metrics, third-party reporting integration, and the customer portal.

  • Controlling WAN Bandwidth and Application Traffic [PDF]
    This technical paper covers PacketShaper's Shaping Module. It explains how to protect, contain, and pace applications' access to bandwidth, and choose appropriate controls. This paper also covers packet marking, MPLS integration, TCP Rate Control, UDP Rate Control, adaptive response, and includes plenty of examples.

  • Compressing Network Applications [PDF]
    A technical paper about PacketShaper's Compression Module. It describes typical results, how compression works, and how Packeteer's control and compression features co-operate to optimize both capacity and performance.

  • Using Protocol Acceleration to Increase WAN Application Performance [PDF]
    This technical paper examines the various causes of performance problems and presents Packeteer’s Acceleration Module as a solution to performance woes. It explains the benefits of acceleration, outlines the types of networks and applications for which acceleration would be beneficial, and describes how acceleration integrates with other PacketShaper modules.

 

PacketGuide™ for PacketWise® 8.0