Loyola College Deploys Packeteer(R) Intelligence to Manage Bandwidth and Assure Performance of Critical Traffic

Packeteer® (NASDAQ:PKTR), the global leader in WAN Application Delivery, today announced that Loyola College in Maryland, a comprehensive university with campuses in Baltimore City and neighboring Baltimore and Howard counties, has migrated to Packeteer’s top-of-the-line PacketShaper® 10000 in preparation for a major network upgrade that could quadruple bandwidth to as much as 500 Mbps. The college will rely on the PacketShaper 10000 and Packeteer’s strategy of Intelligent Service Assurance™ to intelligently manage and assure performance for Loyola’s increasingly complex mix of business-critical application services, including streaming media-based academic content, administrative functions and bandwidth-intensive recreational traffic. Loyola has used PacketShapers for nearly a decade, adding capacity and taking advantage of the system’s growth path as its network grew. The original PacketShaper was used primarily to get control of peer-to-peer (P2P) traffic. Recently, the college has prioritized its more critical applications for the faculty and staff and streaming media of academic content. The current migration to the PacketShaper 10000 was made in anticipation of an upgrade from the existing 150 Mbps WAN link to one with 400-500 Mbps. With a capacity of up to 400,000 concurrent flows and a maximum throughput of 1 Gbps, Loyola expects the PacketShaper 10000 will meet its needs well into the future. The addition of a LAN Expansion Module (LEM) will also enable the college to provide a redundant link to the Internet. "The PacketShaper is an indispensable tool for managing and reporting the constant growth in bandwidth demand across our diverse set of applications,” says Patrick Donohue, Loyola’s network systems engineer. "With the deep visibility provided by the PacketShaper we know exactly which applications are running at any point in time, and can adjust priorities on the fly to deliver better performance for the most critical ones.” Loyola continues to hold all P2P traffic in check, while allowing other forms of recreational traffic, to avoid congestion on the network. Using the PacketShaper, top priority is given to web server traffic facing the outbound link as well as thresholds for designated critical inbound connections necessary to support the college’s network identity. In addition to the traditional Web, email, instant messaging and administrative applications, the college also supports a student portal (the MyLoyola Blackboard), an online registration system, and centralized data storage for all students and faculty. "Our network services department shares many of the same needs as an ISP as we serve a community with the population of a small city,” Donohue said. The college has some 5,000 students with over 80 percent of the undergraduates residing on campus. The Residence Hall Network, or RezNet, provides a high-speed connection to both the campus LAN and the Internet for each student. Wireless Internet access is also available for students and faculty throughout the campus. Donohue described the mission of the network services department as meeting the network technology needs of today for both academic and recreational applications. "The PacketShaper technology has enabled us to successfully achieve this mission,” Donohue emphatically stated. "Students today not only want to study online, they expect to be able to get their entertainment online, particularly through interactive gaming, streaming media, and social networking. A modern collegiate network must be able to support work and play as many more traditional services, like cable TV and telecommunications, become converged onto an expanding data network with growing options of connectivity. The PacketShaper enables us to balance these and other competing demands very easily and cost-effectively.” About Loyola College Founded in 1852, Loyola College in Maryland (www.loyola.edu) is a Jesuit, Catholic university whose mission is to inspire students to learn, lead and serve in a diverse and changing world. The College comprises the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Sellinger School of Business and Management, both of which are at the main campus in Baltimore. Loyola also operates a Clinical Center at Belvedere Square in Baltimore and has two graduate centers in Timonium, Maryland and Columbia, Maryland. The College has a full-time faculty of 305 members and offers degrees study in 36 academic fields for its 3,500 undergraduate and 2,600 graduate students. About Packeteer Packeteer is the global leader in WAN Application Delivery. Packeteer’s solutions provide an intelligent, unified and adaptive approach to monitor, shape, and optimize applications, delivering the best user experience for any application to any location. For more information, contact Packeteer at +1 408 873-4400 or visit the company’s Website at www.packeteer.com. Safe Harbor Clause The statements contained in this press release that are not purely historical are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, including statements regarding Packeteer's expectations, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future. 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