So Packeteer and BlueCoat have done the deed, and Packeteer is now “A BlueCoat Company”.
Quick take-aways so far indicate the planned killing off of a significant portion of the Packeteer product line, and the maintenance of the current Packetshaper product line (Packetshaper, Intelligence Centre and PolicyCentre).
Blue Coat ProxySG is and will remain our strategic product offering for WAN Optimization. We will continue selling PacketShaper, IntelligenceCenter and PolicyCenter and invest heavily in development to revitalize the PacketShaper technologies and feature sets and integrate those into the Blue Coat ProxySG product line.
- Blue Coat PacketShaper
- Blue Coat IntelligenceCenter
- Blue Coat PolicyCenter
Packeteer’s iShared, iShaper, SkyX and Mobiliti products will remain available for sale to existing customers. However, we are not recommending or proposing that new customers purchase these products. We are currently assessing plans for these products and will soon announce decisions as to their future status. – Source
In addition it looks like Packetshaper will be maintained (for some indeterminate timeframe), but then you still have the issue that Packeteer had with the iShared/Packetshaper combination.. two boxes to solve a set of problems, when everyone else has a single box solution.
Also some interesting thoughts from Brian NeSmith here:
Q: What is the business problem that the combined companies will address?
A: Today, network managers don
