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Packeteer® Introduces New PacketShaper Plug-in to Identify and Curb Recreational Gaming Traffic
Customers provided key tool to achieve performance balance between business-critical and recreational traffic

CUPERTINO, Calif. — July 11, 2005 — Packeteer®, Inc. (NASDAQ: PKTR), the global leader in WAN Application Optimization, today introduced a new gaming detection plug-in for its PacketShaper product family that enables customers to identify and control or prevent recreational traffic on their wide area network. Immediately downloadable from the Packeteer web site, the new plug-in detects the most popular Internet gaming applications currently being downloaded and controls bandwidth allocated to traffic designated as “recreational”.

“Recreational Internet gaming consumes a considerable amount of WAN bandwidth that can negatively impact the performance of business critical applications and stymie employee productivity,” said David Puglia, vice president of marketing with Packeteer. “With the introduction of our new gaming detection plug-in, we’re providing our customers with a significant tool that will help them preserve bandwidth and prioritize their most vital applications and network traffic.”

The new plug-in is designed to detect all of Microsoft’s Xbox games that use Xbox Live for networked gaming, such as Halo 2; Blizzard Entertainment’s World of Warcraft; Sierra Entertainment’s Half-Life 2, including Steam content distribution; and Epic Games’ Unreal Tournament 2004.

“Games are one of the most common applications running on our network, and being able to have the visibility into, and control of, our traffic allows us to strike a balance between the recreational and non-recreational traffic on our WAN,” said Todd Chapman, Network Operations Programmer of UC Davis. “Packeteer allows us to guarantee application performance to, ensure that the 5000-plus students paying the University for Internet access receive sufficient bandwidth to accommodate the popularity of Internet gaming.”

The new gaming detection plug-in is an additive feature to Packeteer's WAN Application Optimization appliances that define and deploy specific policy management strategies for each class of application traffic running in an enterprise. These strategies provide granular bandwidth prioritization services to ensure optimal application performance.

“Our system architecture coupled with our team of engineers dedicated to application identification helps ensure that our customers have control over all business-critical and recreational application traffic and can guarantee optimal performance,” said David Puglia, vice president of marketing for Packeteer. “Striking the right balance for an organization’s users and applications is critical and our new plug-in does this quickly and efficiently.”

The new plug-in is available immediately. Packeteer customers with existing service contracts can download them at: http://www.packeteer.com/support/