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Blue Coat to Acquire Packeteer-Excellent-Outcome

21 April 2008 By Greg Ferro 4 Comments

Fantastic news! As a long time user of Blue Coat and Packeteer, I am pretty excited about this. The Packeteer traffic management technologies is a long way ahead of the Cisco queueing strategy, and the Blue Coat product set has plenty of features that hold Cisco at bay in the WAN Acceleration (previously known as Traffic Management….sigh…queue the whale song)

Let hope this completes quickly and cleanly.

Blue Coat to Acquire Packeteer to Offer Comprehensive Solution for WAN Optimization | Blue Coat Systems, Inc.: “”

Om Malik has a few comments as well:

(Via http://gigaom.com/2008/04/21/bluecoat-systems-buys-packeteer/.)

Thank goodness Nortel didn’t get an oar in.


http://gigaom.com/2008/04/20/packeteer-bid-bluecoat-nortel/.

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About Greg Ferro
Greg is a Network and Security Architect / Designer / Engineer working freelance in the UK and worked for Resellers, DotCom's, Large Corporate's and Service Providers across a variety of products & Vendors. He prefers to work for end users, believes in the life cycle, total cost of ownership and that near enough is often good enough. He likes talking about himself in the first person to feel "royal", even when hosting the Packet Pushers Podcast on Data Networking. More about Greg at http://etherealmind.com/who-am-i/ and you can follow him on Twitter.

Comments

  1. Mike B says:
    21 April 2008 at 18:17 +0000

    Cool,
    So now Cisco of Borg can now buy both of them in one swoop.

    You too shall be assimilated.

    Mike

    Reply
  2. Greg Ferro says:
    22 April 2008 at 09:24 +0000

    I wouldn’t have a problem with that. Both companies have quality technology and patent portfolio’s. Good technology is always of value.

    I hope you note that I am not a complete Cisco fanboi.

    Reply
  3. Nizar says:
    8 August 2008 at 09:46 +0000

    Have you heard of iPoque? It can control VoIP/Skype packets too.

    Reply
    • Greg Ferro says:
      10 August 2008 at 10:13 +0000

      iPoque is for carriers and service providers. Which,in my opinion, is a lot simpler than enterprise networks. Carriers might be big, but they need to be simple to scale and be supported.

      Packeteer is much more sophisticated than that product.

      Reply

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