[AusNOG] Traffic Shaping Appliances

[Shaun McGuane]

Thanks everyone for your replies on and off list - very informative and gives me something to think about.

Regards
ShaunM

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From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of James Andrewartha
Sent: Wednesday, 28 November 2012 5:08 PM
To: Gary Buckmaster
Cc: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Traffic Shaping Appliances

On Wed, 28 Nov 2012, Gary Buckmaster wrote:

> The BlueCoat (formerly Packeteer) devices are very effective.  Mind 
> you, the price point is quite high, but the quality is there.

The EDUCAUSE Network Management group recently had a thread on this, quite a few unis have ditched their Packeteers for NetEqualizers as they're a lot cheaper: 
http://www.educause.edu/discuss/networking-and-emerging-technologies/network-management-constituent-group/bandwidth-management

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