Packeteer (News - Alert) has introduced its new multi-gigabit application performance monitoring and control solution, Talon TC30. The new solution delivers speeds of up to 6Gbps for Internet and WAN usage.

 

The Talon TC30 is a modular appliance that turbo-charges Packeteer’s flagship PacketShaper 10000. Packeteer’s latest WAN application performance innovation is a part of the company’s vision to provide Intelligent Service Assurance solutions that more intelligently optimize WAN performance for any user, anywhere in the enterprise.

 

Packeteer claims Talon TC30 is the first product to utilize the company’s new high-speed product architecture developed in conjunction with Cavium Networks.

 

The Talon TC30 offers a “turbo-boost” to Packeteer’s PacketShaper appliances allowing real-time visibility and control over traffic running across OC-12 to OC-48 Internet and core networks. The solution helps customers understand exactly which applications are running on their most critical network links and how these applications are performing. A network administrator can thus manage and prioritize the demands of numerous competing applications and users.

 

Because the Talon TC30 scales to intelligently enforce bandwidth usage policies for the largest LAN and WAN links, it ensures that key applications and services maintain peak performance levels while preventing non-essential traffic from congesting a customer’s most expensive network links.

 

Lucinda Borovick, director of datacenter networks at IDC (News - Alert) said in a statement that enterprises, higher education, government networks, software service providers and ISPs are all adding more high-capacity OC-12 to OC-48 links to alleviate congestion and performance concerns, expanding their bandwidth as well as their cost of doing business.

 

Borovick explained that the proliferation of converged networks and the explosion of new Web 2.0 and Rich Internet Application content are also creating an even more challenging environment to manage and control. She emphasized that identifying applications and controlling their performance at these higher link rates is critical for any firm that depends on network performance. One can ensure optimal levels of service performance and contain the impact of recreational or non-critical traffic by managing networks at an application level.

 

In a recent report, Aberdeen (News - Alert) Group noted that 93 percent of organizations have increased their bandwidth capacity over the last two years. At the same time, 52 percent of these organizations indicate a decrease in application response times. Also, 18 percent of those note a decrease of 50 percent or more. The findings show that although organizations continue to add more bandwidth they are struggling for ways to better manage it.

 

The Talon TC30 can intelligently partition users and prioritize all data, voice and video applications. The solution serves as a strategic infrastructure component for allocating bandwidth, which provides a high-capacity aggregation point for intelligently managing connectivity to an organization’s remote sites. The bandwidth allocation can thus be established and enforced across the entire organization in accordance with business priorities.

 

Jason Katz, CEO of Paltalk (News - Alert), the premier real-time, text, voice and video-based online community said in a statement that the Talon TC30, in conjunction with the PacketShaper 10000 platform, has helped the company monitor its critical applications and even discovers malicious traffic and denial of service attacks that could have shut down access to multi-gigabit networks.

 

The Talon TC30 works in conjunction with Packeteer’s IntelligenceCenter centralized management platform and thus it can be used to manage service level agreements for all transactional, converged and bulk applications and ensure the highest fidelity for bandwidth intensive voice and video traffic.

 

According to Dave Côté, president and CEO of Packeteer, the Talon product not only delivers the highest speed application visibility and performance management solution to their customers, but also provides investment protection for those customers who have deployed PacketShaper appliances.

 

He added that by offering Talon as a solution that seamlessly integrates with PacketShaper, the company is demonstrating its commitment to customers’ network needs as well as their bottom line.