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Packeteer founded in 1996 by Robert Packer

Robert Packer

Robert Packer was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1646 and 1679, as well as being Usher of the Exchequer....

and Brett Galloway, was an I.T.

Information technology

Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...

company based in Cupertino, California

Cupertino, California

Cupertino is an affluent suburban city in Santa Clara County, California in the U.S., directly west of San Jose on the western edge of the Santa Clara Valley with portions extending into the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains. The population was 58,302 at the time of the 2010 census. Forbes...

listed on the NASDAQ

NASDAQ

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. 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

Blue Coat Systems

Blue Coat Systems Inc. is a network security and network management company based in Sunnyvale, California, United States.It identifies itself as an application delivery network specialist...

in 2008 .

Packeteer was a contributing member of the Apdex Alliance

Apdex

Apdex is an open standard developed by an alliance of companies. It defines a standard method for reporting and comparing the performance of software applications in computing...

.

Their main product lines were:

PacketShaper (Traffic shaping
Traffic shaping
Traffic shaping is the control of computer network traffic in order to optimize or guarantee performance, improve latency, and/or increase usable bandwidth for some kinds of packets by delaying other kinds of packets that meet certain criteria...

, compression, TCP & HTTP acceleration, analysis, reporting)
SkyX (TCP
Transmission Control Protocol
The Transmission Control Protocol is one of the core protocols of the Internet Protocol Suite. TCP is one of the two original components of the suite, complementing the Internet Protocol , and therefore the entire suite is commonly referred to as TCP/IP...

acceleration and compression, high latency link optimization) via the Mentat acquisition.
iShared (WAFS
Wide area file services
Wide area file services products allow remote office users to access and share files globally at LAN speeds over the WAN. Distributed enterprises that deploy WAFS solutions are able to consolidate storage to corporate datacenters, eliminating the need to back up and manage data that previously...

and TCP
Transmission Control Protocol
The Transmission Control Protocol is one of the core protocols of the Internet Protocol Suite. TCP is one of the two original components of the suite, complementing the Internet Protocol , and therefore the entire suite is commonly referred to as TCP/IP...

acceleration, optimization, compression and caching) via the Tacit Networks acquisition.
iShaper (Introduced: May 7, 2007. Combines PacketShaper and iShared technologies into a single appliance. Check http://www.packeteer.com/products/ishaper/ for more info)
Mobiliti software (data protection and link optimization for mobile business users. See http://www.packeteer.com/products/mobiliti/) via the Tacit Networks acquisition.
PolicyCenter (centrally manages the configuration, policy management, software distribution and adaptive response tracking of multi-unit deployments.)

History

In 1999, Packeteer had an Initial Public Offering on NASDAQ.
In 2000, Packeteer acquired the company Workfire Technologies and released their AppCelera product based on the Internet Web Acceleration technology developed by Workfire.
In 2004, Packeteer acquired the company Mentat, integrating their SkyX product into the Packeteer portfolio.
In 2006, Packeteer acquired the company Tacit Networks
Tacit Networks
Tacit Networks is an I.T. company based in South Plainfield, New Jersey. It was founded in 2000.Their product lines are:*iShared which provides Wide area file services and WAN optimization....

, maker of the iShared and Mobiliti product lines.

On April 21, 2008, Blue Coat System announced its intention to acquire Packeteer, Inc.

On June 9, 2008 - Packeteer, Inc. was acquired by Blue Coat Systems.

History

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